Do challenging behaviors affect staff psychological well-being? Issues of causality and mechanism

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Hastings, Richard P ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FEAR; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WELLBEING;

ATTITUDE; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 18644372103     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2002)107<0455:DCBASP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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