Vicarious traumatization, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout in sexual assault and domestic violence agency staff

Violence and Victims

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-86

  Baird, Stephanie ^a   Jenkins, Sharon Rae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; SEXUAL CRIME; TRAUMATOLOGY; WORK;

EID: 0037315133     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/vivi.2003.18.1.71     Document Type: Article

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