Compassion fatigue risk and self-care practices among residential treatment center childcare workers

Residential Treatment for Children and Youth

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-122

  Eastwood, Callum D ^a   Ecklund, Kathryn ^a  

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Author keywords

Burnout; Compassion fatigue; Residential childcare worker; Self care

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849128046     PISSN: 0886571X     EISSN: 15410358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08865710802309972     Document Type: Article

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