Telecommunications and suicide prevention: Hopes and challenges for the new century

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-253

  Krysinska, Karolina E ^a   De Leo, Diego ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SUICIDE; TELEPHONE;

COUNSELING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 35649017169     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.55.3.e     Document Type: Review

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