Talk:Vicarious traumatization

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For my trauma course assignment, I was instructed to add to a wikipedia article. I added the following sentence to the Vicarious Traumatization article: “The symptoms of vicarious trauma align with the symptoms of primary, actual trauma. When helping professionals attempt to connect with their clients/victims emotionally, the symptoms of vicarious trauma can create emotional disturbance such as feelings of sadness, grief, irritability and mood swings.” I focused on discussing the symptoms of vicarious trauma (particularly, emotional symptoms). I would like to continue to edit this article. Below, I have compiled a bibliography list for future direction regarding this article: If I continue to edit this article, I believe I would like to discuss prevention, self-care strategies, or potential solutions for vicarious trauma (the findings may have strong implications for people in helping professions).

Bell H., Kulkarni S., Dalton L. (2003). Organizational prevention of vicarious trauma. Families in Society, 84, 463-470.

Bober T., Regehr C. (2006). Strategies for reducing secondary or vicarious trauma: Do they work? Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 6, 1-9.

Catanese, S. A. (2010). Traumatized by association: The risk of working sex crimes. Federal Probation, 74(2), 36-38.

Skovholt, T.M. (2001). The resilient practitioner: Burnout, prevention and self-care strategies for counselor, therapists, teachers, and health professionals. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Trippany, R., White Kress, V. & Wilcoxon, A. (2004). Preventing vicarious trauma: What counselors should know when working with trauma survivors. Journal of Counseling and Development, 82, 31–37. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madekale (talk • contribs) 05:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 5 April 2021 and 11 June 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Bluestarthinks.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 September 2021 and 18 November 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Bhougaard.

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Unclear sentence
In the introduction, this sentence seems like it could be a bit better: "Its hallmark is disrupted spirituality, or meaning and hope." --95.34.7.47 (talk) 01:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm... Maybe this is better. 'Its hallmark is disrupted spirituality, or a disruption in the trauma workers' perceived meaning and hope.'  What do you think? VanessaLylithe (talk) 12:57, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Is VT transitive/contageous?
Given that the vicarious trauma is not direct, but communicated from the directly traumatized to the newly (vicariously) traumatized, would it be possible to consider the process of vicarious traumatization (talking about a trauma - wheither direct or even indirect!) as a contagion vector?


 * Suppose social workers worker of type A and type B have the same working hours,...
 * Suppose type A's workers have only clients which are directly traumatized. Consider the mathematical possibility P_A of a worker from class A to suffer VT.
 * Suppose B's clients are stricly the VT-suffering fraction of social workers of type A. Consider the mathematical possibility P_B of a worker from class B to suffer VT due to therapy about his VT-suffering client of type A.

Is P_A < P_B? is P_A about the same as P_B? is P_A > P_B?

Perhaps VT-suffering people should be treated as infected and placed under therapeutic quarantine. (No therapy, or taboo helps prevent the spreading of VT)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.134.160.197 (talk) 14:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Empathy
Why empathy doesn't work in its literal sense in VT. Because it has its limitation set with the individual who is being empathetic. To be non-emotional is to ask a carnivore to not eat meat and this where VT normally hits. I doubt the role(the basic principle might work when in an unprofessional setting to understand the trauma) & validity of empathy in evidence based practice. The individual engagement should only be professional with the traumatic material and should increasingly use instruments like policy, protocol/framework to process the trauma to identify the key factors in the trauma described or engaged with and should only respond such as that mentioned in the protocol. The rest is all in grey area about how a person should approach the case and it also doesn't matter if the service provider believes in the general resilience within the people. In cases where resiliency lacks, give them the space and time to find it or access programs that can aid towards it.117.213.17.93 (talk) 12:20, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Vicarious traumatization and Compassion fatigue
I cannot distinguish Vicarious traumatization from Compassion fatigue (also called Secondary Traumatic Stress), in a sense where they would be 2 naturally distinct phenomena. Rather, I tend to think that researchers of 2 domains identified more or less the same phenomenon, let us call it Helper Traumatism, which led two 2 different names.

Would it be possible to regroup those 2 articles into a single one with an appropriate name? (Helper Traumatism would be my initial choice.) With appropriate redirects. And with, if needed, specialised article sections to present the studies and results made under the 2 names. (I posted this question in the talk pages of both present articles.) denis &#39;spir&#39; (talk) 08:17, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Issues w/Prognosis section
“Prognosis” is not an appropriate header for the information contained within the section. A Prognosis section would describe typical progression or expected outcomes for people with the ailment, but currently the section contains info on populations who may be at higher risk to develop the ailment. The section should be renamed “At-Risk Populations” or similar.

Additionally, the claim that “Girls experience VT more than boys” is not supported by the next inline citation (Helpingstine, C., 2021). Neither the article’s abstract or published full-text makes any claim of gender, sex, or age predominance. This claim should be removed, or properly cited, or tagged WP:CITENEEDED.

Lastly, the same sentence uses the abbreviation “VT” which is not used anywhere else in the page. This abbreviation should either be previously referenced and used consistently, or not used at all.

I’ve posted these issues on the talk page rather than make them myself because I am an amateur user and wanted to avoid “hit-and-run tagging” or other editing norms I may be ignorant of. 47.215.141.217 (talk) 14:06, 30 December 2023 (UTC)