An evaluation of crisis hotline outcomes Part 1: Nonsuicidal crisis callers

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-337

  Kalafat, John ^a   Gould, Madelyn S ^b,c   Munfakh, Jimmie Lou Harris ^c   Kleinman, Marjorie ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TELEPHONE;

COHORT STUDIES; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOTLINES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE;

EID: 34250874421     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.3.322     Document Type: Article

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