Complicated grief and posttraumatic stress disorder in humans' response to the death of pets/animals

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 176-187

  Luiz Adrian, Julie A ^a   Deliramich, Aimee N ^a   Frueh, B Christopher ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PET ANIMAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BEREAVEMENT; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH; FEMALE; GRIEF; HAWAII; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350217768     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2009.73.3.176     Document Type: Article

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