Offering support to suicidal individuals in an online support group

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-206

  Gilat, Itzhak ^a   Tobin, Yishai ^b   Shahar, Golan ^b,c  

^a The Israeli Association for Emotional First Aid   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action Theory; Internet; Suicidal crisis; Support groups

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 79961234152     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2011.589675     Document Type: Article

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