Attitudes towards personality disorders: Comparison between prison officers and psychiatric nurses

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 265-277

  Carr Walker, Paola ^a,d   Bowers, Len ^a   Callaghan, Patrick ^a   Nijman, Henk ^b   Paton, Jo ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c National Probation Service   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO PERSONALITY DISORDER QUESTIONNAIRE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSING; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STAFF ATTITUDE TO PERSONALITY DISORDER INTERVIEW;

EID: 4444247568     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/1355325041719347     Document Type: Article

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