Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience (Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series)

__Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health__ focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national imperative. This book explores vicarious traumatization in mental health providers who respond to massive disasters by choice or by circumstance. What happens when clinicians share the trauma and vulnerability from the toll taken by a disaster with the victims they care for? How can clinicians increase resilience from disaster exposure and provide mental health services effectively? __Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health__ offers insight and analysis of the research and theory behind vicarious trauma and compares and contrasts with other work-impact concepts such as burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. It proposes practical evidence-informed personal strategies and organizational approaches that address five cognitive schemas (safety, esteem, trust, control and intimacy) disrupted in vicarious trauma. With an emphasis on the psychological health and safety of mental health providers in the post-disaster workplace, this book represents a shift in perspective and provides a framework for the promotion of worker resilience in the standard of practice in disaster management. "Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national imperative. This book explores vicarious traumatization in mental health providers who respond to massive disasters by choice or by circumstance. What happens when clinicians share the trauma and vulnerability from the toll taken by a disaster with the victims they care for? How can clinicians increase resilience from disaster exposure and provide mental health services effectively? Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health offers insight and analysis of the research and theory behind vicarious trauma and compares and contrasts with other work-impact concepts such as burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. It proposes practical evidence-informed personal strategies and organizational approaches that address five cognitive schemas (safety, esteem, trust, control and intimacy) disrupted in vicarious trauma. With an emphasis on the psychological health and safety of mental health providers in the post-disaster workplace, this book represents a shift in perspective and provides a framework for the promotion of worker resilience in the standard of practice in disaster management"-- Provided by publisher Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Contributors Series Editor Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction SECTION I Understanding Vicarious Trauma 1 What Is Vicarious Trauma? 2 What Factors Can Predict Susceptibility to Vicarious Trauma? 3 What Are the Barriers to Addressing Vicarious Trauma? Personal Reflections SECTION II Understanding Disasters 4 What Do We Need to Know About Disasters? 5 How Different Is Psychological First Aid from Other Psychotherapeutic Modalities? 6 How Do We Understand Disaster-Related Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Compassion Fatigue? Personal Reflections SECTION III Understanding Vicarious Resilience 7 What Is Vicarious Resilience? Personal Reflections 8 What Factors Are Associated with Vicarious Resilience? 9 What Are the Positive Effects of Working with Victims of Trauma? SECTION IV Managing Vicarious Trauma in Disasters 10 How Do We Measure Vicarious Trauma? 11 How Can We Rescue Ourselves from Vicarious Trauma? Personal Reflections 12 What Can Organizations Do to Address Vicarious Trauma in Disasters? Personal Reflections SECTION V Navigating Resources on Vicarious Trauma and Disasters 13 What Resources Are Available on Vicarious Trauma? 14 How Do We Navigate Relevant Information on Disasters? Appendix Index Section 1. Understanding vicarious trauma -- section 2. Understanding disasters -- section 3. Understanding vicarious resilience -- section 4. Managing vicarious trauma in disasters -- section 5. Navigating resources on vicarious trauma and disasters