Strategic specialty partnerships: Enabling the EAP for evidence informed best practices in workplace crisis response

Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 119-131

  VandePol, Bob ^a   Gist, Richard ^b   Braverman, Mark ^c   Labardee, Lyle ^a  

^a Crisis Care Network

^b Missouri Fire Department   (United States)

^c Principal of the Braverman Group LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis response; Recovery management; Trauma debriefing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845687006     PISSN: 15555240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J490v21n03_07     Document Type: Review

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