Trauma work, sense of coherence, and positive and negative changes in therapists

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 185-188

  Linley, P Alex ^a   Joseph, Stephen ^b   Loumidis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c Kidderminster General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adversarial growth; Sense of coherence; Trauma therapists

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; WORK; AFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 23044497896     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084004     Document Type: Article

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