Responses to suicidal messages in an online support group: Comparison between trained volunteers and lay individuals

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1929-1935

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

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

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Internet; Suicidal crisis; Support groups; Trained volunteers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

COUNSELING; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 84872301641     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0508-7     Document Type: Article

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