Reconstructing Meaning in Bereavement

Handbook of Psychotherapy in Cancer Care

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 247-257

  Neimeyer, Robert A ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Complicated grief; Constructivism; Grief therapy; Loss; Meaning making; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865981754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470975176.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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