Critical incident stress debriefing: A health promotion model for workplace violence

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 125-132

  Antai Otong, Deborah ^a  

^a North Texas Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical incident; Critical incident team; Stress debriefing; Workplace violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041075326     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2001.tb00644.x     Document Type: Article

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