Responses of direct-care paraprofessional mental health staff to hypothetical ethics violations

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1160-1163

  Dracy, David L ^a   Yutrzenka, Barbara A ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 0030801372     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.48.9.1160     Document Type: Article

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