Indicators of family resilience after the death of a child

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-358

  Greeff, Abraham P ^a   Vansteenwegen, Alfons ^b   Herbiest, Tina ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; INFANT; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OBJECT RELATION; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 80052873207     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.63.4.c     Document Type: Article

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