Secondary traumatization in pediatric healthcare providers: Compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-128

  Meadors, Patrick ^a   Lamson, Angela ^a   Swanson, Mel ^a   White, Mark ^a   Sira, Natalia ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CHILD; EMPATHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CHILD; EMPATHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77149143863     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.60.2.a     Document Type: Article

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