Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center Choices and Challenges
Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Inter
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The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping Series Editor:
Donald Meichenbaum, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Current Volumes in the Series:
BEYOND TRAUMA Cultural and Societal Dynamics Edited by Rolf J. Kleber, Charles R. Figley, and Berthold P. R. Gersons COMMUTING STRESS Causes, Effects, and Methods of Coping Meni Koslowsky, Avraham N. Kluger, and Mordechai Reich COPING WITH CHRONIC STRESS Edited by Benjamin H. Gottlieb CREATING A COMPREHENSNE TRAUMA CENTER Choices and Challenges Mary Beth Williams and Lasse A. Nurmi ETHNICI1Y, IMMIGRATION, AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Edited by Ihsan Al-Issa and Michel Tousignant HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND THE FAMILY Edited by Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason, and Irwin G. Sarason INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HUMAN RESPONSE TO TRAUMA Edited by Arieh Y. Shalev, Rachel Yehuda, and Alexander C. McFarlane INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF MULTI GENERATIONAL LEGACIES OF TRAUMA Edited by Yael Danieli THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF TORTURE Edited by Ellen Gerrity, Terence M. Keane, and Farris Tuma PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY Key Papers and Core Concepts in Post-Traumatic Stress Edited by George S. Everly, Jr. and Jeffrey M. Lating STRESS, CULTURE, AND COMMUNI1Y The Psychology and Philosophy of Stress Stevan E. Hobfoll TRAUMATIC STRESS From Theory to Practice Edited by John R. Freedy and Stevan E. Hobfoll
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Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center Choices and Challenges
Mary Beth Williams Trauma Recovery Education and Counseling Center Warrenton, Virginia
and
Lasse A. Nurmi Police College of Finland Espoo, Finland
With the assistance of Michelle Ledbetter
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
library of Congress Catalogmg-in-Publication Data Creating a comprehensive trauma center: choices and challenges/Mary Beth Williams and Lasse A. Nurmi. p. ; cm - (The Plenum series on stress and coping) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Trauma centers-Cross-cultural studies. III. Series.
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II. Nurmi, Lasse A
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