Still part of the family: The importance of physical, emotional and spiritual memorial places and spaces for parents bereaved through the suicide death of their son or daughter

Mortality

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-71

  Maple, Myfanwy ^a   Edwards, Helen Elizabeth ^a   Minichiello, Victor ^a   Plummer, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bereavement; continuing bonds; memorials; narratives; suicide survivors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873705646     PISSN: 13576275     EISSN: 14699885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2012.755158     Document Type: Article

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