Social acknowledgement as a predictor of post-traumatic stress and complicated grief after witnessing assisted suicide

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-385

  Wagner, Birgit ^a   Keller, Valerie ^b   Knaevelsrud, Christine ^c   Maercker, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

assisted suicide; complicated grief; euthanasia; post traumatic stress disorder; social acknowledgement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWITZERLAND;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84862582993     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764011400791     Document Type: Article

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