Complicated grief after perinatal loss

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-194

  Kersting, Anette ^a   Wagner, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Complicated grief; Depression; Loss of pregnancy; Miscarriage; Neonatal loss; Perinatal loss; Prenatal loss; Stillbirth; Termination of pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPLICATED GRIEF; FETUS DISEASE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY LOSS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84869477811     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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