Police attitudes toward mental illness and psychiatric patients in Israel

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 625-630

  Kimhi, Robert ^a,b   Barak, Yoram ^a,b   Gutman, Jacob ^a,b   Melamed, Yuval ^a,b   Zohar, Moshe ^a,b   Barak, Israel ^b,c  

^a ABARBANEL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Ministry of Public Security   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; POLICE; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLICE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0032426033     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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