Participants of this workshop will learn key concepts of vicarious trauma and will be provided the opportunity for self - reflection and experiential engagement to explore their own experience
with vicarious trauma.
Not exact matches
It is quite obvious that while working
with these serious conditions and symptoms,
trauma therapists would remain at considerably high risk for
vicarious traumatization.
If you work
with even just one student who experienced
trauma, you can experience
vicarious trauma or compassion fatigue.
The symptoms of
vicarious trauma vary across individuals, but most center around a preoccupation
with and stress over students» traumatic experiences.
In the video below, Psychologist Ellie Izzo, author of The Bridge to I am: Rapid Advance Psychotherapy and co-author
with Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Vicki Carpel Miller of Second Hand Shock: Surviving and Overcoming
Vicarious Trauma, discusses collaborative divorce in the wake of the Tiger Woods divorce:
Also called secondary traumatic stress or
vicarious trauma, secondary
trauma can occur when a professional experiences stress or symptoms of
trauma when working
with traumatized children and families.
Therapists will be able to describe how to work
with aggression and
trauma in the play room without having their own nervous system shut down leading to
vicarious trauma
Hunter Institute Program Manager and PRIA member, Marc Bryant will lead discussions
with attendees around capacity building of communication practitioners, impact of mass media incidents involving mental illness and suicide, responding to critical incidents and
vicarious trauma, as well as providing an introduction to the Mindframe program and strategies for responding to media.
She says organisations can effectively manage
vicarious trauma, and mitigate its risk, through a robust multi-pronged management program
with strategies including education, risk reduction processes, monitoring processes, early intervention and proactive symptom responses.
In recent years, there's also been a growing awareness around ensuring not just the physical but also the psychological wellbeing of employees,
with more organisations now working to manage the impact of
vicarious trauma in the workplace.
The symptoms of
vicarious trauma or Second - Hand Shock run parallel
with Post Traumatic Stress disorder and include:
She created and wrote about the Rapid Advance Process in her doctoral dissertation and
with Vicki Carpel Miller, LMFT, further developed the process for treatment of
Vicarious Trauma.