Attitudes toward therapists who lose patients to suicide

Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 167-178

  Ward Ciesielski, Erin F ^a   McIntosh, John L ^b   Rompogren, Joscelyn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^c ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203795583-33     Document Type: Chapter

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