Get into reading as an intervention for common mental health problems: Exploring catalysts for change

Medical Humanities

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-20

  Dowrick, Christopher ^a   Billington, Josie ^a   Robinson, Jude ^a   Hamer, Andrew ^a   Williams, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The Reader Organisation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; READING; REHABILITATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BIBLIOTHERAPY; COMMUNICATION; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); READING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84861459968     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2011-010083     Document Type: Article

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