I'm just refining my lit review for my research on vicarious growth in EMDR therapists when working with PTSD clients. Anyone who has written any research or knows of any leads appreciated. thank you.
Dear Penelope,
Journal of Family Psychotherapy
Volume 21, Issue 4, 2010
Vicarious Trauma: Proposed Factors That Impact Clinicians by Karin Jordan
This article provides an overview about vicarious traumatization (VT) seen in military (and civilian) therapists working with combat veterans. Special focus is placed on the impact of VT on therapists on personal and professional levels. In addition, 8 important factors that impact the VT symptom severity are described: (a) the number of combat veterans and severity of combat trauma assigned/seen by the therapist; (b) personal history of trauma; (c) professional trauma, including deployment/redeployment in combat zones (in Afghanistan and Iraq) to provide therapy in combat zones; (d) the perception of adequate training for working with combat veterans with Type II trauma; (e) peer supervision and/or consultation; (f) availability of social support; (g) self-care and leisure; and (h) resiliency and stress buffers.
Hello Penelope
Some researchers have written on this subject on Researchgate:
Sodeke-Gregson, E. A., Holttum, S., & Billings, J. (2013). Compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress in UK therapists who work with adult trauma clients. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 4.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259568036_Compassion_satisfaction_burnout_and_secondary_traumatic_stress_in_UK_therapists_who_work_with_adult_trauma_clients
My original reason for answering was to mention the above; but these are some further papers that you have probably seen already:
Jarero, I., Amaya, C., Givaudan, M., & Miranda, A. (2013). EMDR individual protocol for paraprofessional use: A randomized controlled trial with first responders. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 7(2), 55-64.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/emdr/2013/00000007/00000002/art00001?crawler=true
Stergiopoulos, E., Cimo, A., Cheng, C., Bonato, S., & Dewa, C. S. (2011). Interventions to improve work outcomes in work-related PTSD: a systematic review. BMC public health, 11(1), 838.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/838/
Craig, C. D., & Sprang, G. (2010). Compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in a national sample of trauma treatment therapists. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 23(3), 319-339.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10615800903085818
The above paper is cited in:
Sodeke-Gregson, E. A., Holttum, S., & Billings, J. (2013). Compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress in UK therapists who work with adult trauma clients. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877781/
Deighton, R. M., Gurris, N., & Traue, H. (2007). Factors affecting burnout and compassion fatigue in psychotherapists treating torture survivors: Is the therapist's attitude to working through trauma relevant?. Journal of traumatic stress, 20(1), 63-75.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jts.20180/abstract
Best wishes with your research
Mary
Article Compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic st...
Dear Penelope,
Journal of Family Psychotherapy
Volume 21, Issue 4, 2010
Vicarious Trauma: Proposed Factors That Impact Clinicians by Karin Jordan
This article provides an overview about vicarious traumatization (VT) seen in military (and civilian) therapists working with combat veterans. Special focus is placed on the impact of VT on therapists on personal and professional levels. In addition, 8 important factors that impact the VT symptom severity are described: (a) the number of combat veterans and severity of combat trauma assigned/seen by the therapist; (b) personal history of trauma; (c) professional trauma, including deployment/redeployment in combat zones (in Afghanistan and Iraq) to provide therapy in combat zones; (d) the perception of adequate training for working with combat veterans with Type II trauma; (e) peer supervision and/or consultation; (f) availability of social support; (g) self-care and leisure; and (h) resiliency and stress buffers.
Hi Penelope,
The recommendations that you received are great and right on target.
I am not sure if the current work being done by Marsha Linehan at my univeristy is
as specific to your topic as the comments provided by the experts on here, but she is examining stress in psychotherapists in her latest research.
Take care,
peter
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