Demoralization: Its phenomenology and importance

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 733-742

  Clarke, David M ^a   Kissane, David W ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorder; Classification; Demoralization; Depression; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPETENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DEMORALIZATION; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMPATHY; EXPERIENCE; FRUSTRATION; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORALE;

EID: 0036904112     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2002.01086.x     Document Type: Article

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