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7 - Ethics on the Edge: Working with Clients Who Are Persistently Suicidal

from Section I - Ethical Issues in Specific Settings and Challenging Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2018

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Derek Truscott
Edited by
Mark M. Leach  and
Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel
Mark M. Leach
Affiliation:
University of Louisville, Kentucky
Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel
Affiliation:
Cleveland State University
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The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics , pp. 134 - 153
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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