The Zuni Life Skills Development Program: A school/community-based suicide prevention intervention

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-353

  LaFromboise, Teresa D ^a,c   Lewis, Hayes A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute of American Indian Arts   (United States)

^c 485 Lasuen Mall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CURRICULUM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CULTURE; CURRICULUM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIFE STYLE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SUICIDE;

EID: 49649115758     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.3.343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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