Further information related to this fact sheet: Trauma and families.
Related information on Better Health Channel
- Accidents and injuries.
- Accidents and injuries - support services.
- Accidents and injury - reducing the risks.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Stress affects us in many ways.
- Stress can become a serious illness.
- Trauma - after effects.
- Trauma - reacting and recovering.
Related information on other websites
Department of Human Services, Victoria - Emergency Management.
Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies – ASTSS.
Australian Psychological Society.
Headroom.
References used for this fact sheet
- Coping in times of crisis or disaster [online] (451kb, pdf), Salvation Army, Australia. More information here.
- Dyregrov, A., Family recovery from terror, grief and trauma [online], International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. More information here.
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