HUMANITARIAN WORKERS CONFRONTED WITH EBOLA: WHEN THE MASKS FALL

Authors

  • Evelyne JOSSE*

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54695/dss.58.03.2809

Keywords:

Ebola, Humanitarian workers, Stress, Flame-out, Vicarious traumatisation, Cumulative stress.

Abstract

Risk of contagion, uncomfortable protective clothing, work overload, danger, facing death
and people with great suffering: this is the lot of humanitarian workers who come to help the
population in areas concerned by the Ebola epidemic.

Published

2015-06-01

Issue

Section

Articles