Lack of safe environment: Emotional difficulties and coping among clinicians treating traumatized patients within a terrorized society-Israel 2006

Traumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 282-292

  Shalvi, Shaul ^a   Luzzatto, Diana ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Academic College of Tel Aviv Yafo   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; Coping; Israel; Liminality; Stress; Terror; Terrorism; Trauma; Trauma treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355148129     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765606297818     Document Type: Article

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