Psychosocial Care

Stillbirth: Prediction, Prevention and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 203-228

  Cacciatore, Joanne ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATTEND, relationship based patient centered model of psychosocial intervention; Colloquy between systems macro and mezzo systems on individual; Dual process model of bereavement loss, and a focus on living; Insidious seeping into psyche macro factors, affecting parents of stillborn babies; Micro system, traumatic loss and existential angst mother's existence wrapped up to her dead child's; Multidimensional integrative stillbirth systems model; Psychosocial care; Stillbirth, bereavement of mother grieving loss of a part of the self; Stillbirth, birth and death collision traumatic experience, and psychopathology; Therapeutic touch, or haptics reducing tension, and improving rapport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858672623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444398038.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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