Vicarious resilience: A qualitative investigation into its description

Traumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 13-21

  Engstrom, David ^a   Hernandez, Pilar ^b   Gangsei, David ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Survivors of Torture   (United States)

Author keywords

Resilience; Vicarious resilience; Vicarious trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849103244     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765608319323     Document Type: Article

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