title: Emotional reactions of patient, family, and staff in acute-care period of spinal cord injury: part 2.
abstract: Part 1 of this paper, published in the last issue, dealt with the sequence of emotional reactions of patients in the Spinal Cord Injury Center at New York University Hospital. Part 2, presented here, considers the reactions of family members and staff through these same stages of shock, denial, anger, and depression, and further discusses implications for treatment.
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D001290:Attitude; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D003863:Depression; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological