Victoria MacRitchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6054011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria MacRitchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | MacRitchie |
| SIGNATURE | MACRITCHIE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secondary Traumatic Stress, Level of Exposure, Empathy and Social Support in Trauma Workers
In South Africa the incidence of violent crime is an everyday occurrence that affects the majority of the population directly and/or indirectly. Research reveals that counselling victims of violent crime may cause psychological symptoms in trauma workers, which in turn may lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). However, despite this knowledge, there appear to be very few trauma studies that focus on trauma workers. Furthermore there also appea…
Headlines and Discourses in Newspaper Reports on Traffic Accidents
Building on the existing social and health sciences knowledge base, we explore the ways in which traffic accidents on South African roads are constructed by the media and how these constructions are related to the media's role in supporting hegemonic interests, producing public consensus and promoting public agency. Discourse analysis was used to analyse 52 South African newspaper articles that reported on traffic accidents during the Easter week…
Secondary Traumatic Stress, Level of Exposure, Empathy and Social Support in Trauma Workers
In South Africa the incidence of violent crime is an everyday occurrence that affects the majority of the population directly and/or indirectly. Research reveals that counselling victims of violent crime may cause psychological symptoms in trauma workers, which in turn may lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). However, despite this knowledge, there appear to be very few trauma studies that focus on trauma workers. Furthermore there also appea…
Headlines and Discourses in Newspaper Reports on Traffic Accidents
Building on the existing social and health sciences knowledge base, we explore the ways in which traffic accidents on South African roads are constructed by the media and how these constructions are related to the media's role in supporting hegemonic interests, producing public consensus and promoting public agency. Discourse analysis was used to analyse 52 South African newspaper articles that reported on traffic accidents during the Easter week…
Headlines and Discourses in Newspaper Reports on Traffic Accidents
Building on the existing social and health sciences knowledge base, we explore the ways in which traffic accidents on South African roads are constructed by the media and how these constructions are related to the media's role in supporting hegemonic interests, producing public consensus and promoting public agency. Discourse analysis was used to analyse 52 South African newspaper articles that reported on traffic accidents during the Easter week…
Secondary Traumatic Stress, Level of Exposure, Empathy and Social Support in Trauma Workers
In South Africa the incidence of violent crime is an everyday occurrence that affects the majority of the population directly and/or indirectly. Research reveals that counselling victims of violent crime may cause psychological symptoms in trauma workers, which in turn may lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). However, despite this knowledge, there appear to be very few trauma studies that focus on trauma workers. Furthermore there also appea…
Advertising (1 work) · Burnout (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Child Abuse and Trauma (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Compassion fatigue (1 work) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Empathy (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)