When you can’t avoid exposure to traumas and retraumatization, you may feel helpless and hopeless. This is where getting a sense of control in other parts of your life comes in. Helping others, attend local counsel meetings, do something good for others can honestly help to counteract the...
(1997). Vicarious traumatization in counsellors working in the New South Wales Sexual Assault Service: An exploratory study. Work & Stress, 11(4), 319-328.Johnson, C. N. E., & Hunter, M. (1997). Vicarious traumatization in counsellors working in the New South Wales Sexual Assault ...
Two measures of these dispositional tendencies were hypothesized to be related to PTSD symptom-like behaviors in response to work with trauma clients: the Absorption Inventory of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (TAS) (Tellegen, 1978/1982), and the Questionnaire Measure ...
Children may be vicariously traumatized from learning about the trauma of family and friends. To date, a causal model of children’s vicarious traumat
In this study, 178 licensed social workers completed the Professional Quality of Life survey (ProQOL), the Trauma Informed Organizational Culture survey (TIOC), and a Demographic questionnaire to examine the association between the Organizational Culture constructs of Perceived Organizational Peer Support,...
Participants completed a 24-item demographic questionnaire, the Traumatic Stress Institute Belief Scale - Revision L, the Impact of Event Scale, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Contrary to expectations, participants did not exhibit significantly higher degrees of vicarious traumatization than a ...
The present descriptive, sequential mixed-method study explored VT experienced by mental health professionals in the post鈥揌urricane Katrina New Orleans region using the Vicarious Traumatization Questionnaire (VTQ). The study also examined the impact of VT on the professional and personal functioning ...
One hundred and fifteen participants from south-east New South Wales (NSW) in Australia who had not experienced any direct exposure, loss or injury from the 2001–2002 NSW bushfires were interviewed using the Vicarious Traumatization Questionnaire, Impact of Events Scale and Coping Strategies ...
The concept and theoretical framework of vicarious traumatization were intensively reviewed to encompass not only the psychological symptoms but also broad effects, such as workers' identity issues and their frame of reference. Clinical workers were selected as the study population because they were ...
This study investigated the relationships among reference points, empathic attunement, and VT with psychotherapists who have a history of trauma and work with adult abuse survivors. Seventy therapists with a personal trauma history completed a vignette questionnaire assessing empathic attunement and ...