Effect of staff debriefing on posttraumatic stress symptoms after assaults by community housing residents

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-212

  Matthews, Lynda R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031943020     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.49.2.207     Document Type: Article

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