Exploring the role of experiential avoidance from the perspective of attachment theory and the dual process model

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 357-369

  Shear, M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CARE; WIDOW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SELF CARE; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 77958494761     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.61.4.f     Document Type: Article

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