The costs of 'being with the woman': secondary traumatic stress in midwifery

Midwifery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-87

  Leinweber, Julia ^a   Rowe, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; Empathy; Midwife woman relationship; Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Secondary trauma; Traumatic birth; Woman centred care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; BURNOUT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDWIFE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 73849096938     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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