The Ripple Effect: Lessons Learned About Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Clinicians Responding to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-315

  Pulido, Mary L ^a  

^a New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster mental health; Indirect exposure; Ripple effect; Secondary traumatic stress; Shared traumatic reality; Terrorist attacks of 9 11

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865405927     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-012-0384-3     Document Type: Article

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