Bereavement and mental health after sudden and violent losses: A Review

Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-97

  Kristensen, Pål ^a   Weisaeth, Lars ^a   Heir, Trond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; BEREAVEMENT; CONVALESCENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GRIEF; GUILT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROLONGED GRIEF DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH; SUICIDE; THREAT; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEREAVEMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COUNSELING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTERS; GRIEF; HUMANS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 84861014418     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2012.75.1.76     Document Type: Review

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