Responding in times of crisis - An exploratory study of employer requests for critical incident response services

Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 171-189

  Greenwood, Kristina L ^a   Kubiak, Gosia ^b   Van der Heide, Laurie ^a   Phipps, Nolan ^a  

^a ValueOptions ^*  (United States)

^b Naval Environmental Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis intervention; Critical incident; Workplace stress management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845703670     PISSN: 15555240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J490v21n03_10     Document Type: Article

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