The use of narrative data to inform the psychotherapeutic group process with suicide survivors

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-106

  Mitchell, Ann M ^a   Gale, Deborah Dysart ^a,b   Garand, Linda ^a,c   Wesner, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GRIEF; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SUICIDE; SUPPORT GROUP; SURVIVAL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GROUP PROCESS; GROUP THERAPY; GUILT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; CRIME VICTIMS; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GROUP PROCESSES; GUILT; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NARRATION; PENNSYLVANIA; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE;

EID: 0037639063     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840305308     Document Type: Review

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