Crisis and triage clinicians' attitudes toward working with people with personality disorder

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 208-215

  Purves, Deborah ^a   Sands, Natisha ^b  

^a Inner West Area Mental Health ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Crisis; Personality disorder; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRIAGE;

EID: 67650854641     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2009.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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