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This chapter provides an overview of the book titled Secondary Trauma and Burnout in Military Behavioral Health Providers: Beyond the Battlefield. The focus of this book is to provide critical information related to the literature on secondary trauma and burnout in combination with specific findings from our military mental health provider project called SupportNet. SupportNet was designed to identify and address these risks directly related to military-based caregivers. Specific chapter highlights are offered.

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Benight, C.C. (2016). Introduction. In: Secondary Trauma and Burnout in Military Behavioral Health Providers. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95103-1_1

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