Practice challenges in using psychological first aid in a group format with children: A pilot study

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 313-326

  Plummer, Carol A ^a   Cain, Daphne S ^a   Fisher, Rakinzie M ^a   Bankston, Toni Q ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Children and disaster; Group interventions; Psychological first aid

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049115715     PISSN: 14743310     EISSN: 14743329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhn019     Document Type: Article

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