Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ452573
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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A Suicide Epidemic in a Psychiatric Hospital.
Taiminen, Tero; And Others
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v22 n3 p350-63 Fall 1992
Reports on epidemic of six inpatient suicides in Finnish psychiatric hospital. Notes that suggestion and identification had effect on timing and method of four of six suicides. Views epidemic from individual, network, and organizational perspectives. Speculates on how such epidemics could be avoided. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Patients, Psychiatric Hospitals, Suicide
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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