Continuous professional development is a key factor in ensuring effective teaching and training. Teachers have been involved in continuous professional development over the years, however vicarious trauma may influence this process. Does vicarious trauma have the ability to affect this important engagement.?
Professional development involves raising your professional level (knowledge / skills) towards others. In the case of a manifestation of vicarious trauma, it is likely that the balance in activity will shift to greater interaction with those people / organizations who in their development currently need help / support.
Accordingly, less time will be devoted to the self-interest of research / self-development. Ultimately, it can very seriously slow down. On the other hand, you can become a "professional assistant" for other people. It's not for nothing that this type of professional frustration is so expressively named, and not just a kind of burnout.
Perhaps, for someone it is not a trauma, but a meaningful choice of one's life path. Perhaps, one of the ways of therapy could just be to comprehend and accept such a place in the life of others. In Japan there is such a thing as "Ikigai" - finding its destination, including understanding its benefits to society, for example.
Solomon, I read your question and was thinking about the idea of vicarious trauma. Could you explain to me? I have interest in 'critical episodes' in teacher lifes to enhance professional development.
For me, one of the aspects that greatly damages the professional development of teachers is the stress caused by the great demand of institutional demands that can often exceed the teacher's capacity to respond to such demands. This situation can create disorders in which teachers do not feel the desire to improve their professional skills.
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