Lifetime mood symptoms and adult separation anxiety in patients with complicated grief and/or post-traumatic stress disorder: A preliminary report

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 436-440

  Dell'Osso, Liliana ^a   Carmassi, Claudia ^a   Musetti, Laura ^a   Socci, Chiara ^a   Shear, M Katherine ^b   Conversano, Ciro ^a   Maremmani, Icro ^a   Perugi, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Adult separation anxiety; Bereavement; Complicated grief; Mood spectrum symptoms; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT SEPARATION ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; INVENTORY OF COMPLICATED GRIEF; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOOD SPECTRUM SELF REPORT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPARATION ANXIETY; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; WORK AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT SCALE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84868650044     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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