"We lost all we had in a second": Coping with grief and loss after a natural disaster

World Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-75

  Ekanayake, Samanthika ^a   Prince, Martin ^b   Sumathipala, Athula ^c   Siribaddana, Sisira ^c   Morgan, Craig ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Research and Development Sri Lanka   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Emotional distress; Natural disaster; Resilience and coping; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NATURAL DISASTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SRI LANKA; SURVIVOR; WELLBEING;

EID: 84877712442     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: 20515545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wps.20018     Document Type: Article

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