Religion and spirituality: How clinicians in Quebec and Geneva cope with the issue when faced with patients suffering from chronic psychosis

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-86

  Borras, Laurence ^a   Mohr, Sylvia ^a   Gillieron, Christiane ^b   Brandt, Pierre Yves ^c   Rieben, Isabelle ^c   Leclerc, Claude ^d   Huguelet, Philippe ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinicians; Psychosis; Religion; Schizophrenia Coping

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SWITZERLAND;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUEBEC; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77952311430     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-009-9247-y     Document Type: Article

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