The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): Ten year empirical support for Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)

International Journal of Emergency Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-10

  Flannery Jr , Raymond B ^a  

^a Department of Mental Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ASAP; Assaulted Staff Action Program; CISM; Critical Incident Stress Management; Patient Assaults; Staff Victims

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035653438     PISSN: 15224821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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