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Social Work Crisis Interventions With Traumatic Death Survivors In Medical Settings, Sabrina R. Spencer
Social Work Crisis Interventions With Traumatic Death Survivors In Medical Settings, Sabrina R. Spencer
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Traumatic death survivors are an at-risk population that could benefit from social work interventions. This action research study explored social work perspectives on crisis practice with traumatic death survivors in acute medical settings. The research questions focused on whether early crisis interventions by social workers would benefit traumatic death survivors, which interventions were recommended in crisis practice with this population, the potential effects of repeated trauma exposure on the social workers providing the crisis interventions, and recommendations to manage this professional exposure to trauma. The purpose of the study was to explore social work perspectives on potential benefits of crisis …