Encountering patient suicide: Emotional responses, ethics, and implications for training programs

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 329-332

  Coverdale, John H ^a   Roberts, Laura Weiss ^a   Louie, Alan K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EMOTION; ETHICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE;

CURRICULUM; EMOTIONS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PSYCHIATRY; SUICIDE;

EID: 38449084451     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.31.5.329     Document Type: Editorial

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