The experience of northern helping practitioners

• Main Author: O'Neill, Linda Kay
• Other Authors: Shepard, Blythe
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: counselling; secondary trauma; culture; First Nations; UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences; Duran; Yukon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1009

This research study considered the experience of northern helping practitioners in providing trauma support in isolated communities in northern BC and Yukon. In these communities, access to specialists in the field of trauma counselling is severely restricted due to distance from main centres. Econo...