Explain the significance of using an assessment in the treatment and prevention of vicarious trauma for clients and counselors. Be specific.

Master’s Students The assignment: (2-3 pages)

• Identify yourself as a master’s student on the title page of your assignment.
• Describe the components of the assessment.
• Explain the significance of each section of the assessment for vicarious trauma. Be specific.
• Explain the significance of using an assessment in the treatment and prevention of vicarious trauma for clients and counselors. Be specific.
• Support your answers using the learning resources and current literature.
  

Learning Resources

Media

• Media Carousel: Trauma-Response Helping Professionals
  • Transcript

Readings

• Course Text: Secondary traumatic stress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, and educators
  • Chapter 5, “Helpers’ Responses to Trauma Work: Understanding and Intervening in an Organization”
  • Chapter 9, “Trauma-Based Psychiatry for Primary Care”
• Course Text: Compassion Fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized
  • Chapter 3, “Working with People in Crisis: Research Implications”
• Course Text: Quitangon, G. & Evces, M. (2015). Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience. New York: Routlege
  • Chapter 10
• Article: Way, I., VanDeusen, K., & Cottrell, T. (2007). Vicarious trauma: Predictors of clinicians’ disrupted cognitions about self esteem and self-intimacy. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 16(4), 81–98.
• Template: Vicarious Trauma Self-Assessment