Nursing staff knowledge and attitudes towards deliberate self-harm in adults and adolescents in an inpatient setsing

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-309

  Wheatley, Malcolm ^a   Austin Payne, Hannah ^b  

^a ST ANDREW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Inpatient; Knowledge and attitudes; Nursing staff; Self harm

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING STAFF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIGNETTE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CULTURE; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 67949122007     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465809005268     Document Type: Article

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