The Suicide Narrative Interview: adolescents’ attachment expectancies and symptom severity in a clinical sample

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 447-462

  Zisk, Abigail ^a   Abbott, Caroline H ^a   Ewing, Stephanie Krauthamer ^b   Diamond, Guy S ^b   Kobak, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent attachment; attachment expectancies; suicide; suicide narrative; symptom severity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CAREGIVER; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 85006922682     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2016.1269234     Document Type: Article

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