Clinician attitudes toward the suicide attempter

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1975, Pages 146-155

  Dressler, David M ^a   Prusoff, Brigitte ^b   Mark, Hal ^c   Shapiro, Donald ^d  

^a NEW BRITAIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Connecticut State Department of Mental Health ^*  (United States)

^d Manchester Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; EMPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONNECTICUT; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMOTIONS; HUMAN; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PARANOID DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0016612577     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-197502000-00009     Document Type: Article

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