Positive psychological impact of treating victims of politically motivated violence among hospital-based health care providers

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 315-318

  Shiri, Shimon ^a,b   Wexler, Isaiah D ^b   Alkalay, Yasmin ^a   Meiner, Zeev ^b   Kreitler, Shulamith ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Politically motivated violence; Positive psychological impact; Posttraumatic growth; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Traumatic stress symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIANS; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46149116613     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000142524     Document Type: Article

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