Secondary and Vicarious Trauma
One Page Handout on Secondary and Vicarious Trauma. People who work in helping professions ”are called to respond to individual, community, national, and even international crises. Health care professionals, social service workers, teachers, attorneys, police officers, firefighters, clergy, airline and other transportation staff, disaster site clean-up crews, and others who offer assistance at the time of the event or later, maybe negatively affected by their contact with these events.
Secondary and Vicarious Trauma (word format)
One Page Handout on Secondary and Vicarious Trauma in ms word format.
Prevention Suggestions
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his is a list of prevention suggestions that were developed for clinicians so it may not apply well to field-workers. Feel free to edit it as you like APA Fostering Resilience in Mental Health Workers.
http://www.apa.org/psychologists/pdfs/mentalhealthworkers.pdf
Fostering Resilience in Response to Terrorism Among Mental Health Workers Telehealth for Prevention and Intervention of the Negative Effects of Caregiving.
http://www.istss.org/publications/TS/Fall02/telehealth.htm
This is a brief article from the ISTSS StressPoints that outlines the general theory of Secondary Traumatic Stress and some ideas about prevention through technology- mediated support.
Annotated list of STS and TS resources
This links to the Rural Care Traumatic Stress and Secondary Traumatic Stress Page that has additional information and links to manuals and other resources.
Work-Related Secondary Traumatic Stress
This is a brief paper on the theory of secondary trauma. Issues of Preserving Rural professional Quality of Life This is a National Rural Health Association Issue Paper on professional quality of life.
Dr. Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., http://www.proqol.org and Idaho State University
Craig Higson-Smith, M.A., South African Institute of Traumatic Stress
Amy C. Hudnall, M.A., Appalachian State University
Dr. Henry E. Stamm, Ph.D., Pocatello, ID, U.S.A.
Khabir, BA, webmaster