Prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among social workers

Social Work

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Bride, Brian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; PTSD; Secondary trauma; Vicarious trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947599932     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/52.1.63     Document Type: Article

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