Older people's attitudes to mental illness

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-45

  Quinn, Kathryn M ^a   Laidlaw, Ken ^b   Murray, Lindsey K ^a  

^a NHS FIFE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREJUDICE; SCOTLAND; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 65549086652     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.598     Document Type: Article

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