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Post-Traumatic Stress in Disaster First Responders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2016

Joshua C. Morganstein*
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814
David M. Benedek
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814
Robert J. Ursano
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814

Abstract

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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016 

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