Vicarious Trauma. Must reduce stress and transform despair that comes with having one’s view of the world shattered. Normalize, don’t pathologize. Figley Figley (95) suggests the best counselors are most at risk because they care. You may start to feel those vicarious trauma symptoms creep up. If you are not practicing self-compassion, then you will get in a space of judging your feelings and feeling guilty. This is a tough space to be in and you can get stuck.
Vicarious traumatization (VT) is a transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences. It is a special form of countertransference stimulated by exposure to the client’s traumatic material.[1] Its hallmark is disrupted spirituality, or a disruption in the trauma workers' perceived meaning and hope. The term was coined specifically with reference to the experience of psychotherapists working with trauma survivor clients.[2] Others, including Saakvitne, Gamble, Pearlman, and Lev (2000) have expanded its application to a wide range of persons who assist trauma survivors, including clergy,[3] front-line social workers,[4]justice system professionals,[5][6]health care providers,[7][8]humanitarian workers,[9][10]journalists, and first responders.[8]
Signs and symptoms[edit]
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The symptoms of vicarious trauma align with the symptoms of primary, actual trauma. When helping professionals attempt to connect with their clients/victims emotionally, the symptoms of vicarious trauma can create emotional disturbance such as feelings of sadness, grief, irritability and mood swings.[11] The signs and symptoms of vicarious trauma parallel those of direct trauma, although they tend to be less intense. Workers who have personal trauma histories may be more vulnerable to VT, although the research findings on this point are mixed.[12] Common signs and symptoms include, but are not limited to, social withdrawal; mood swings; aggression; greater sensitivity to violence; somatic symptoms; sleep difficulties; intrusive imagery; cynicism; sexual difficulties; difficulty managing boundaries with clients; and core beliefs and resulting difficulty in relationships reflecting problems with security, trust, esteem, intimacy, and control.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Contributing factors[edit]
Vicarious trauma, conceptually based in constructivistself-development theory,[20][21][22] arises from an interaction between individuals and their situations. This means that the individual helper's personal history (including prior traumatic experiences), coping strategies, and support network, among other things, all interact with his or her situation (including work setting, the nature of the work s/he does, the specific clientele served, etc.), to give rise to individual expressions of vicarious trauma. This in turn implies the individual nature of responses or adaptations to VT as well as individual ways of coping with and transforming it.
Anything that interferes with the helper's ability to fulfill his/her responsibility to assist traumatized clients can contribute to vicarious trauma. Many human service workers report that administrative and bureaucratic factors that impediment to their effectiveness influence work satisfaction.[4] Negative aspects of the organization as a whole, such as reorganization, downsizing in the name of change management and a lack of resources in the name of lean management, contribute to burned-out workers.[23][24][25]
Vicarious trauma has also been attributed to the stigmatization of mental health care among service providers. Stigma leads to an inability to engage in self care and eventually the service provider may reach burnout, and become more likely to experience VT.[26] The research has also begun to show that vicarious trauma is more prominent in those with a prior history of trauma and adversity.[27]
Related concepts[edit]
While the term 'vicarious trauma' has been used interchangeably with 'compassion fatigue', 'secondary traumatic stress disorder,' 'burnout,' 'countertransference,' and 'work-related stress,' there are important differences. These include the following:
- Unlike compassion fatigue, VT is a theory-based construct. This means that observable symptoms can serve as the starting for a process of discovering contributing factors and related signs, symptoms, and adaptations. VT also specifies psychological domains that can be affected, rather than specific symptoms that may arise. This specificity may more accurately guide preventive measures and interventions, and allow for the accurate development of interventions for multiple domains (such as changes in the balance between psychotherapy and other work-related tasks and changes in self-care practices).
- Countertransference is the psychotherapist's response to a particular client. VT refers to responses across clients, across time.
- Unlike burnout, countertransference, and work-related stress, VT is specific to trauma workers. This means that the helper will experience trauma-specific difficulties, such as intrusive imagery, that are not part of burnout or countertransference.[21] The burnout and vicarious traumatization constructs overlap, specifically regarding emotional exhaustion.[28] A worker may experience both VT and burnout, and each has its own remedies. VT and countertransference may also co-occur, intensifying each other.[21]
- Unlike vicarious trauma, countertransference can be a very useful tool for psychotherapists, providing them with important information about their clients.
- Work-related stress is a generic term without a theoretical basis, specific signs and symptoms or contributing factors, or remedies. Burnout and vicarious trauma can co-exist. Countertransference responses may potentiate vicarious trauma.[21]
- Vicarious post-traumatic growth, unlike VTF, is not a theory-based construct but rather is based on self-reported signs.[29]
Mechanism[edit]
The posited mechanism for vicarious traumatization is empathy.[21][30][31] Different forms of empathy may result in different effects on helpers. Batson and colleagues have conducted research that might inform trauma helpers about ways to manage empathic connection constructively.[32][33] If helpers identify with their trauma survivor clients and immerse themselves in thinking about what it would be like if these events happened to them, they are likely to experience personal distress, feeling upset, worried, distressed. On the other hand, if helpers instead imagine what the client experienced, they may be more likely to feel compassion and moved to help.
Measurement[edit]
Over the years, people have measured VT in a wide variety of ways. Vicarious trauma is a multifaceted construct requiring a multifaceted assessment. More specifically, the aspects of VT that would need to be measured for a complete assessment include self capacities, ego resources, frame of reference (identity, world view, and spirituality), psychological needs, and trauma symptoms.[20][34][22] Measuring of some of these elements of VT exist, including the following:
- Psychological needs, using the Trauma and Attachment Belief Scale[18]
- Self capacities, using the Inner Experience Questionnaire[21] and/or the Inventory of Altered Self-Capacities[35]
- Trauma symptoms, using the PTSD Checklist,[36] Impact of Events Scale,[37]Impact of Events Scale-Revised,[38] children's revised Impact of Events Scale (Arabic Version),[39]Trauma Symptom Inventory,[40] Detailed Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress,[41] and/or the World Assumptions Scale[42]
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Addressing[edit]
Vicarious traumatization is not the responsibility of clients or systems, although institutions that provide trauma-related services bear a responsibility to create policies and work settings that facilitate staff (and therefore client) well-being.[43][44] Each trauma worker is responsible for self-care,[45] working reflectively,[46] and engaging in regular, frequent, trauma-informed professional confidential consultation.[21]
There are many ways of addressing vicarious traumatization. All involve awareness, balance, and connection.[45] One set of approaches can be grouped together as coping strategies. These include, for example, self-care, rest, escape, and play. A second set of approaches can be grouped as transforming strategies. Transforming strategies aim to help workers create community and find meaning through the work. Within each category, strategies may be applied in one's personal life[22][45] and professional life.[46] Organizations that provide trauma services can also play a role in mitigating vicarious trauma.[47][48]
Research shows that many simple things increase happiness and this aids to lessen the impact of vicarious traumatization. People who are more socially connected tend to be happier.[49] People who consciously practice gratitude are also shown happier.[50] Creative endeavours that are completely detachment with work also increase happiness.[51] Self-care practices like yoga, qigong, and sitting meditation are found to be helpful for those who practice.[52][53][54]HBR in a case study regarding to traumatization stated that it is essential to create an organizational culture in which it’s cool to be a social worker or a counselor, where these professionals are empowered to influence the workplace issues, the strategy of human services in both corporate and care services.[55]
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- Hernández, Pilar; Gangsei, David; Engstrom, David (1 June 2007). 'Vicarious Resilience: A New Concept in Work With Those Who Survive Trauma'. Family Process. 46 (2): 229–241. doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2007.00206.x. ISSN1545-5300.
- Kearney, Michael K.; Weininger, Radhule B.; Vachon, Mary L. S.; Harrison, Richard L.; Mount, Balfour M. (18 March 2009). 'Self-care of Physicians Caring for Patients at the End of Life: 'Being Connected . . . A Key to My Survival''(PDF). JAMA. 301 (11): 1155–64, E1. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.352. ISSN0098-7484. PMID19293416.
- Meadors, Patrick; Lamson, Angela (1 January 2008). 'Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatization: Provider Self Care on Intensive Care Units for Children'. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. 22 (1): 24–34. doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2007.01.006. ISSN0891-5245. PMID18174086.
- Norcross, John C.; Guy, James D. (25 June 2007). Leaving It at the Office: A Guide to Psychotherapist Self-Care. Guilford Press. ISBN978-1-59385-576-5.
- Shah, Siddharth Ashvin (15 October 2009). ''To do no harm,' Spiritual Care and Ethnomedical Competence: Four cases of Psychosocial Trauma Recovery for the 2004 Tsunami and 2005 Earthquake in South Asia.'. In Brenner, Grant; Bush; Moses (eds.). Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work. Taylor & Francis. pp. 157–178. ISBN978-0-203-86953-6.
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