Nursing staff responses to violent events in closed psychiatric wards: A comparison between attributional and cognitive-neo-associationistic analyses

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 509-521

  Apel, Dorit ^a   Bar Tal, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 1542427687     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1996.tb01111.x     Document Type: Article

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