Factors correlated with client attachment to mental health services

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 572-575

  Blackburn, Claire ^a   Berry, Katherine ^b   Cohen, Keren ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment; mental health services; psychosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MISUSE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77955619036     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181ea16d6     Document Type: Article

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