Codetype base rates for the 'I Mean Business' suicide items on the MMPI- 2

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1167-1173

  Sepaher, Irena ^a   Bongar, Bruce ^b   Greene, Roger L ^b  

^a PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 0032871584     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199909)55:9<1167::AID-JCLP13>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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