Therapist sensitivity towards emotional life-career issues and the working alliance with suicide attempters

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-213

  Michel, Konrad ^a   Dey, Pascal ^b   Stadler, Kathrin ^b   Valach, Ladislav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Action theory; Attempted suicide; Narrative approach; Working alliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544380193     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110490436792     Document Type: Article

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