Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 396-403 , September 2003

The link between response styles and major depression and anxiety disorders after child-loss

  • Taku Ito

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Taku Ito, Ph.D., Sanparesu-Kitamachi 202, 7-7-28 Kitamachi, Nerima, Tokyo, 179-0081 Japan
    • Kisho-cho Education Counseling Room, Saitama Municipal Institute of Education, Saitama, Japan
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  • Takuro Tomita

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda University, Saitma; Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Chieko Hasui

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan
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  • Akiko Otsuka

      Affiliations

    • Saitma City Board of Education, Saitma, Japan
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  • Yayoi Katayama

      Affiliations

    • Niiza City Education Counseling Room, Saitma, Japan
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  • Yumiko Kawamura

      Affiliations

    • Sendai City Child Guidance Center, Sendai, Japan
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  • Michiko Muraoka

      Affiliations

    • Education Center of Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Masako Miwa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Shinji Sakamoto

      Affiliations

    • College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Ichiro Agari

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Human and Social Environment, Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima, Japan
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  • Toshinori Kitamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan

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☆ Supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare, Assessment of the Mother and Child Health Care System, and by a grant from the Meiji Life Foundation of Health and Welfare which formed part of the 6th Health Culture Research Grant in 1999.

PII: S0010-440X(03)00109-3

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00109-3

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 396-403 , September 2003

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