Grief is not a disease but bereavement merits medical awareness

The Lancet

Volumn 389, Issue 10067, 2017, Pages 347-349

  Stroebe, Margaret ^a,b   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^b   Schut, Henk ^a   Boerner, Kathrin ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ANXIETY DISORDER; AWARENESS; BEREAVEMENT; COMPLICATED GRIEF; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DSM-5; GRIEF; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ICD-11; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PARENTAL DEATH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK FACTOR;

BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GRIEF; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 85010749071     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30189-7     Document Type: Note

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