Complicated grief

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 153-159

  Shear, M Katherine ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Phys and Sur ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEREAVEMENT; COMPLICATED GRIEF; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOSS OF APPETITE; MENTAL DISEASE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SADNESS; SLEEP DISORDER; SPOUSE; SUDDEN DEATH; SUICIDAL IDEATION; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84920597707     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1315618     Document Type: Article

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