An assessment of secondary traumatic stress in juvenile justice education workers

Journal of Correctional Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 208-217

  Hatcher, Schnavia ^a   Bride, Brian E ^a   Oh, Hyejung ^a   King, Dione ^a   Catrett, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice   (United States)

Author keywords

juvenile justice staff; posttraumatic stress disorder; secondary traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISON; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRISONS; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958822326     PISSN: 10783458     EISSN: 19405200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078345811401509     Document Type: Article

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