Perpetration-induced traumatic stress in persons Who euthanize nonhuman animals in surgeries, animal shelters, and laboratories

Society and Animals

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-220

  Rohlf, Vanessa ^a   Bennett, Pauleen ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ANIMAL TECHNICIANS; ANIMALS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; VETERINARIANS;

EID: 24944479071     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: 15685306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568530054927753     Document Type: Article

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