Bereavement and complicated grief

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Shear, M Katherine ^a   Ghesquiere, Angela ^b   Glickman, Kim ^c  

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

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment theory; Bereavement; Complicated grief; Grief; Loss; Older adults; Psychiatry; Symptoms; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE;

AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COMPLICATED GRIEF; COMPLICATED GRIEF TREATMENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; GENDER; GRIEF; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOURNING; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SORROW; SUICIDE; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; AGED; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BEREAVEMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84893171915     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-013-0406-z     Document Type: Article

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