Bereavement and anxiety

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 169-175

  Shear, M Katherine ^a   Skritskaya, Natalia A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Attachment theory; Bereavement; Death anxiety; Generalized anxiety disorder; Grief; Mortality salience; NIH Research Domain Criteria; Panic disorder; Post traumatic stress disorder; PTSD; Separation anxiety; Terror management theory

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; GRIEF; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MORTALITY; MORTALITY SALIENCE; MOURNING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SORROW; SUICIDE; TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; GRIEF; HUMANS;

EID: 84861101378     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0270-2     Document Type: Review

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