Coping with a patient's suicide: A curriculum for psychiatry residency training programs

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-33

  Lerner, Uma ^a,b   Brooks, Kristen ^a,b   McNiel, Dale E ^a,b   Cramer, Robert J ^a,b   Haller, Ellen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EDUCATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHIATRY; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857545927     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.10010006     Document Type: Article

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