Prolonged grief disorder three decades post loss in survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 87-93

  Stammel, Nadine ^a,b   Heeke, Carina ^b   Bockers, Estelle ^a,b   Chhim, Sotheara ^c   Taing, Sopheap ^c   Wagner, Birgit ^d   Knaevelsrud, Christine ^a,b  

^a Berlin Center for Torture Victims   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation   (Cambodia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Complicated grief; Depression; Prolonged grief; PTSD; Survivors of conflict

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CAMBODIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INVENTORY O FCOMPLICATED GRIEF REVISED; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROLONGED GRIEF DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE; SIBLING; SPOUSE; SURVIVOR;

AGED; ANXIETY; CAMBODIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; WAR;

EID: 84870302229     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2012.05.063     Document Type: Article

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