Improving support of residents after a patient suicide: A residency case study

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 278-281

  Mangurian, Christina ^a,c   Harre, Elizabeth ^a   Reliford, Aaron ^a   Booty, Andrew ^b   Cournos, Francine ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; DEPERSONALIZATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GUILT; HEALING; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; NOTE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIST; PUBLICATION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SHAME; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STAFF TRAINING; SUICIDE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE;

EID: 70349437152     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.33.4.278     Document Type: Note

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