Je. Mccarroll et al., WORKING WITH TRAUMATIC MATERIAL - EFFECTS ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM STAFF, American journal of orthopsychiatry, 65(1), 1995, pp. 66-75
Preparation for the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Mu
seum in Washington, D.C., in April 1993, exposed workers to potentiall
y disturbing personal artifacts of Holocaust victims and other reminde
rs of the horrors of the Holocaust. The process of psychological consu
ltation is described, and the resultant approaches to interventions de
signed to lower distress among museum workers and volunteers are discu
ssed.