Continuing bonds and difficulty adjusting to marital bereavement

Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1980) has been widely used within the bereavement literature to explain both healthy and disordered mourning. Traumatic Grief (Prigerson et al., 1999) and the Continuing Bonds hypothesis (Klass, Silverman & Nickman, 1996) are examined from an attachment perspective. In...

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Main Author: Bird, Lisa
Published: University of Birmingham 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269550