Working in the midst of unfolding trauma and traumatic loss

Psychoanalytic Social Work

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-25

  Miller, Madelyn ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Disaster Trauma Working Group   (United States)

^c International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinician impact; Learning process; Training; Trauma; Traumatic loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 33044483788     PISSN: 15228878     EISSN: 15229033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J032v10n01_03     Document Type: Article

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