User:Madekale/sandbox

Adding to An Article:

For this particular assignment, I added to the wiki article entitled: Vicarious Traumatization. I added the following sentence: “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.

Article Evaluation

I completed my article evaluation on the article entitled: Vicarious Traumatization (VT). The article needs some improvement:

·        The last word in the title (traumatization) should be shortened to simply read (trauma).

·        The first sentence appears to be cluttered with language and it just ends up making the sentence complicated. It reads: Vicarious traumatization (VT) is a transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences. I am wondering why the authors can’t just simply say: Vicarious Trauma refers to secondary trauma that helping professionals experience due to helping traumatized individuals.

·        The definition of vicarious trauma in this article is incorrect.

·        The article states that McCann and Pearlmann coined the term. This is incorrect I believe. It was Karen Saakvitne and Laurie Anne Peralman that coined the term. Additionally, the article should state the full names of the folks that invented the word.

·        The article then goes on to name other people who contributed to the word. I don’t think this is necessary, just state the prominent contributors two or three names should be sufficient.

·        By the end of the article I felt distracted because the article started to talk about vicarious transformation. Is this an article about vicarious trauma? Or vicarious transformation? The article needs some focus.

·        Some links don’t work to the citations and some of the references are outdated.

·        Most of the information in this article is outdated (from the 80’s or 90’s). I am wondering if there is recent research, perhaps in the last couple of years, that talk about vicarious trauma.

·        The talk page seems to agree with me that this article needs some improvement.

·        The article is rated as an “unassessed psychology article” and “unknown-importance psychology article.”

·        The structure of the article can use some editing to include the correct definition of the word “vicarious trauma,” the origin and history of the word, the symptoms of vicarious trauma and examples of how vicarious trauma has been represented in our world throughout history, and in the present time. I am open to editing this article.