Psychological and psychosocial interventions after attempted suicide: An overview of treatment studies

Crisis

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 108-117

  Hepp, Urs ^a,c   Wittmann, Lutz ^a,d   Schnyder, Ulrich ^a,c   Michel, Konrad ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c University Hospital Zurich ^*

^d ICU ^*  (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f Aeschi Working Group

Author keywords

Attempted suicide; Deliberate self harm; Randomized controlled trials; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FAMILY THERAPY; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; SOCIOTHERAPY; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 4544381355     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.25.3.108     Document Type: Review

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