Parental grief after a child's drug death compared to other death causes: Investigating a greatly neglected bereavement population

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 291-316

  Feigelman, William ^a   Jordan, John R ^a   Gorman, Bernard S ^a  

^a NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ACCIDENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SURVIVOR;

ACCIDENTS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; OVERDOSE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 80052870775     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.63.4.a     Document Type: Review

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