Patient suicides in psychiatric residencies and post-vention responses: A national survey of psychiatry chief residents and program directors

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-38

  Tsai, Al ^a   Moran, Scott ^a   Shoemaker, Richard ^a   Bradley, John ^a  

^a Walter Reed Army Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COUNSELING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LEAVE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COUNSELING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PHYSICIANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICK LEAVE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857508599     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.09100186     Document Type: Review

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