The use of aberrant medical humor by psychiatric unit staff

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 669-689

  Sayre, Joan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 0035496560     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840119739     Document Type: Article

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