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Initial Psychological Response to Parental Death
Mardi J. Horowitz, MD;
Janice Krupnick, MSW;
Nancy Kaltreider, MD;
Nancy Wilner;
Anthony Leong, MS;
Charles Marmar, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1981;38(3):316-323.
Abstract
• A cohort of patients seeking help at a clinical research center providing time-limited brief therapy for posttraumatic stress disorders was assembled. The single life event experienced by each was death of a parent. A nonequivalent comparison group was gathered by review of hospital death records. Both groups received the same type of evaluation interview and completed the same measures, which were similar to those done for both groups by the clinical interviewer. These data indicated that while both groups contained persons with medium to high distress levels, the patient group was most uniformly composed of such persons; when compared with the field-study group, the patient group had significant and important elevations of distress levels.
Author Affiliations
From the Center for the Study of Neuroses, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 23, 1980.
Reprint requests to Director, Center for the Study of Neuroses, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, 401 Parnassus, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr Horowitz).
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