Perinatal loss and parental grief: The challenge of ambiguity and disenfranchised grief

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-196

  Lang, Ariella ^a   Fleiszer, Andrea ^e   Duhamel, Fabie ^b   Sword, Wendy ^c   Gilbert, Kathleen ^d   Corsini Munt, Serena ^a  

^a VON Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DENIAL; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GRIEF; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERIUM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STILLBIRTH;

ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959732229     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.63.2.e     Document Type: Article

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