Multiple terrorist attacks: Compassion fatigue in Israeli social workers

Traumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 293-301

  Cohen, Miri ^a,b   Gagin, Roni ^b   Peled Avram, Maya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; Debriefing; Hospital; Social workers; Supervision; Terror

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349453332     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765606297820     Document Type: Article

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