TY  - JOUR
AB  - Psychologically traumatic experiences can arise out of apparently
normal, everyday situations, can affect perfectly ordinary working
people, and may only involve one or two individuals. Four case
illustrations are given of unsuspecting employees who found their lives
thrown into extreme turmoil by the experience of a traumatic event.
These included a railway suicide, an acid‐throwing attack, an explosion
in an apartment block, and a rape by a work colleague. The nature of
psychological trauma is examined, and then the benefits of early
intervention in such cases, and the need for employers to provide a
counselling service which is sophisticated enough to cater for problems
of this kind is considered.
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
SN  - 0955-8217
DO  - 10.1108/EUM0000000002851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002851
AU  - Duckworth Douglas H.
PY  - 1990
Y1  - 1990/01/01
TI  - PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND THE ORDINARY WORKING PERSON
T2  - Employee Councelling Today
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 7
EP  - 13
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -