Participation-engagement: A philosophically based heuristic for prioritizing clinical interventions in the treatment of comorbid, complex, and chronic psychiatric conditions

Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-176

  Shahar, Golan ^a,b   Davidson, Larry ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; GESTURES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PANIC DISORDER; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHILOSOPHY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 68049099361     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2009.72.2.154     Document Type: Review

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