Personal and organizational predictors of posttraumatic adaptation and growth in police officers

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Paton, Douglas ^a   Burke, Karena J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Critical incidents; Organizational culture; Police; Posttraumatic growth; Teams; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649015733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11744707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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