Trauma-exposed Firefighters: Relationships among Posttraumatic Growth, Posttraumatic Stress, Resource Availability, Coping and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Experience

Stress and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 356-365

  Sattler, David N ^a   Boyd, Bill ^b,c   Kirsch, Julie ^a,d  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fire Department   (United States)

^c Coastal Industrial Services ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

firefighters; posttraumatic growth; posttraumatic stress; resilience; social support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BURNOUT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING EXPERIENCE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; COMPLICATION; CRISIS INTERVENTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; JOB SATISFACTION; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROCEDURES; PROTECTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FIREFIGHTERS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84915825987     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2608     Document Type: Article

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