Therapeutic and nontherapeutic reactions in a group of nurses and doctors in Turkey to patients who have attempted suicide

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 891-906

  Demirkiran, Fatma ^a   Eskin, Mehmet ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Doctors; Nurses; Suicidal patients; Suicide; Therapeutic and nontherapeutic reactions; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749328210     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.8.891     Document Type: Article

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