Strategies for reducing secondary or vicarious trauma: Do they work?

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Bober, Ted ^a   Regehr, Cheryl ^b  

^a Ontario Medical Association   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping; Secondary traumatic stress; Self care; Supervision; Vicarious trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 31744443490     PISSN: 14743310     EISSN: 14743329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhj001     Document Type: Article

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