Exploring the bond: Emotional responses of animal shelter workers to euthanasia

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 208, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 846-849

  White, Debra J ^a   Shawhan, Ruth ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; EMOTION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; COUNSELING; DATA COLLECTION; EMOTIONS; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VETERINARIANS;

EID: 0030584495     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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