Understanding Bereavement: What Every Oncology Practitioner Should Know

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 172-180

  Kacel, Elizabeth ^a   Gao, Xin ^a   Prigerson, Holly G ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATORY GRIEF; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL THERAPY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ONCOLOGY; PROLONGED GRIEF DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEREAVEMENT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FAMILY THERAPY; GRIEF; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 82855177780     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: 1879596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suponc.2011.04.007     Document Type: Review

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