Distinctive emotional responses of clinicians to suicide-attempting patients - A comparative study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yaseen, Zimri S ^a   Briggs, Jessica ^a   Kopeykina, Irina ^a   Orchard, Kali M ^a   Silberlicht, Jessica ^a   Bhingradia, Hetal ^a   Galynker, Igor I ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Counter transference; Counter transference hate; Counter transference questionnaire; Patient death; Suicidality; Suicide; Suicide risk assessment; Therapist response; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; COMFORT SEEKING BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEATH; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOPE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84884318748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-230     Document Type: Article

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