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What is the difference between counseling a survivor of a primary trauma and those who experience vicarious trauma? Are the needs the same or different? How would you know what intervention strategies to use? It is not uncommon for trauma-response helping professionals to have similar needs and experiences of those who experience primary trauma and it is essential for counselors, counselor educators, and supervisors to apply evidence-based interventions effectively.
This week you examine similarities and differences in symptoms between and among survivors of sexual abuse, natural disasters, and those with vicarious trauma related to working with these survivors. In addition, you explore evidence-based interventions for treating vicarious trauma. Finally, you examine the implications of interventions on counselor training and readiness.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
Analyze and apply vicarious trauma interventions to trauma-response helping professionals
Evaluate the use of organizational practices in therapeutic interventions
Compare symptoms between sexual trauma survivors, survivors of natural disasters, and trauma-response helping professionals with vicarious trauma
Analyze the implications of vicarious trauma interventions on counseling training and readiness
Creating Unique Interventions
Trauma-response helping professionals are often damaged by brutal events and may feel rage and grief over the intentional or unintentional harm done to others. As a result, it is not uncommon to find them traumatized by such experiences. Those who experience primary trauma, including trauma-response helping professionals working with clients, often have similar needs related to treatment. It is essential that you recognize what interventions are appropriate for primary trauma and those interventions appropriate for vicarious trauma.
For this Assignment, you explore the similarities and differences in symptoms between and among trauma-response helping professionals, survivors of sexual abuse, and natural disasters.
The assignment: (2–3 pages)
Identify two similarities and two differences between the symptoms of survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters, and trauma-response helping professionals experiencing vicarious trauma working with these populations.
Using the current research, describe an evidence-based intervention used to treat trauma-response helping professionals experiencing vicarious trauma while working with survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters.
Explain the implications of your training and preparedness in counseling trauma-response helping professionals who work with survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters. Be specific.
Identify one insight you had or conclusion you drew based upon the comparison. Be specific.
Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.
Resources
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Figley, C. (Ed). (1995). Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized. New York, NY: Brunner/Mazel.
Chapter 7, “Treating the “Heroic Treaters”
Chapter 8, “Treating Therapists with Vicarious Traumatization and Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorders”
Figley, C. (Ed.). (2002). Treating compassion fatigue. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner/Routledge.
Chapter 2, “The Trauma of Working with Traumatized Children”
Bartley, A. G. (2007). Confronting the realities of volunteering for a national disaster. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 29(1), 4 – 16.
Kress, V. E. W., Trippany, R. L., & Nolan, J. M. (2003). Responding to sexual assault victims: Considerations for college counselors. Journal of College Counseling, 6(2), 124–133.
Putnam, S. E. (2009). The monsters in my head: Posttraumatic stress disorder and the child survivor of sexual abuse. Journal of Counseling & Development, 87(1), 80–89.
VanDeusen, K., & Way, I. (2006).Vicarious trauma: An exploratory of the impact of providing sexual abuse treatment on clinicians’ trust and intimacy. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 15(1), 69–85.
Optional Resources
Perron, B., & Hiltz, B. (2006). Burnout and secondary trauma among forensic interviewers of abused children. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 23(2), 216–234.
Schauben, L., & Frazier, P. (1995). Vicarious Trauma: The effects of working with sexual violence survivors. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 19(1), 49 – 64.