Impact of Psychological Grief Counseling on the Severity of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Mothers after Stillbirths

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 650-654

  Navidian, Ali ^a   Saravani, Zahra ^b   Shakiba, Mansour ^c  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MOTHER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STILLBIRTH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85026236198     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2017.1315623     Document Type: Article

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