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Post-Traumatic Stress in Disaster First Responders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2016

Joshua C. Morganstein ,
David M. Benedek  and
Robert J. Ursano
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
*
[email protected]
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 1 - 2
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016 

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