Strategies for Teaching About Trauma to Graduate Social Work Students

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 378-396

  Gilin, Barbara ^a   Kauffman, Stephen ^a  

^a WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACE study; pedagogy; secondary traumatic stress; trauma; trauma informed; vicarious traumatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941368217     PISSN: 08841233     EISSN: 15407349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08841233.2015.1065945     Document Type: Article

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