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Original Articles

To Resolve or Not to Resolve

Past Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Volunteer Crisis Workers

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Pages 37-55 | Received 05 Jan 2005, Accepted 20 Oct 2005, Published online: 14 Oct 2008

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