The Relationship Between Clinician Sex, Ethnicity, Sexual Identity and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 306-321

  Connally, Dalton ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

burnout; caregivers; clinicians; compassion fatigue; ethnic minority; secondary traumatic stress; sexual minority; stress; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867251094     PISSN: 19359705     EISSN: 19359713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19359705.2012.697002     Document Type: Article

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