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PowerPoint Presentation...Symptoms of Vicarious Trauma\爀屲Difficulty managing your emotions; reacts to normal situations in abnormal or adverse ways\爀䐀椀昀晜 椀挀甀氀琀礀
• What Is Trauma• Dangers of Trauma• Symptoms and Results of Trauma• Coping with Trauma• Transforming Trauma• Resiliency
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Objectives What Is Vicarious Trauma Dangers of Vicarious Trauma Symptoms of Vicarious Trauma Results of Vicarious Trauma Relief From Vicarious Trauma Resiliency
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Objectives What Is Vicarious Trauma Dangers of Vicarious Trauma Symptoms of Vicarious Trauma Results of Vicarious Trauma Relief From Vicarious Trauma Resiliency
What is Trauma
Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, assault or
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Vicarious trauma is a process that unfolds over time. It is not just your responses to one person, one story, or one situation. It is the cumulative effect of contact with survivors of violence or disaster or people who are struggling. Vicarious trauma happens because you care because you empathize with people who are hurting. Vicarious trauma happens because you feel committed or responsible to help and at times, you are unable to fulfill that commitment. It can lead to very high (and sometimes unrealistic) expectations of yourself and others, and for the results you want to see from your work. You can eventually feel burdened, overwhelmed, and hopeless in the face of great need and suffering. It can also lead you to extend yourself beyond what is reasonable for your own. A key component of vicarious trauma is changes in spirituality, which can deeply impact the way you see the world and your deepest sense of meaning and hope.
Dangers of Trauma
The dangers of trauma is that the effects can be both insidious and infectious.
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Dangers of Vicarious Trauma The danger vicarious trauma (VT) is that the effects can be both insidious and infectious. It can be insidious because usually the person suffering from vicarious trauma doesn’t always realize the effect. It can be infectious because those suffering from VT can and do infect their co-workers without realizing it
• Difficulty managing your emotions; • Difficulty accepting or feeling okay about yourself; • Difficulty making good decisions; • Problems managing boundaries between yourself and others • Problems in relationships; • Physical problems such as aches & pains, illnesses, accidents; • Difficulty feeling connected to what’s going on around and within
you • Loss of meaning and hope.
Symptoms and Results of Trauma
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Symptoms of Vicarious Trauma Difficulty managing your emotions; reacts to normal situations in abnormal or adverse ways Difficulty accepting or feeling okay about yourself; overly critical of own performance Difficulty making good decisions; Problems managing the boundaries between yourself and others (e.g., taking on too much responsibility, having difficulty leaving work at the end of the day, trying to step in and control other’s lives); this for me is probably the most dangerous symptom of vicarious trauma. Depending on the client you are working with there is the danger of giving personal information. Western State examples: Problems in relationships; Physical problems such as aches & pains, illnesses, accidents; Difficulty feeling connected to what’s going on around and within you; and as I stated earlier Loss of meaning and hope. Vicarious trauma can negatively affect your work, your colleagues, the overall functioning of the organization, and the quality of assistance being provided to those you are working to help. Vicarious trauma influences the way you act and interact with people you love. This affects your family and friends.
Coping with Trauma
Coping with trauma means identifying strategies that can both help prevent future trauma and deal with current trauma.
Good coping strategies are things that help you take care of yourself – especially things that help you escape, rest, and play.
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Coping with Vicarious Trauma Coping with vicarious trauma means identifying strategies that can both help prevent vicarious trauma from becoming severe, and help manage vicarious trauma during times when it is more problematic. Good coping strategies are things that help you take care of yourself – especially things that help you escape, rest, and play.
Coping with Trauma Activity #1
Instructions: Break into pairs and interview each other asking these three questions:How do you escape?How do you rest?How do you play?
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Coping with Vicarious Trauma Among other things, these might include: Escape: Getting away from it all, physically or mentally (books or films, taking a day or a week off, playing video games, talking to friends about things other than work); Rest: Having no goal or time-line, or doing things you find relaxing (lying on the grass watching the clouds, sipping a cup of tea, taking a nap, getting a massage); and Play: Engaging in activities that make you laugh or lighten your spirits (sharing funny stories with a friend, playing with a child, being creative, being physically active).
Transforming TraumaTransforming trauma means something deeper than just coping with it. Transforming trauma means identifying ways to nurture a sense of meaning and hope. What gives life and work meaning, and what instills or renews hope? 6/10/2019 . 9
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Transforming Vicarious Trauma Transforming vicarious trauma means something deeper than just coping with it. Remember that, over time, one of the key components of vicarious trauma is changes in your spirituality. You can come to question your deepest beliefs about the way life and the universe work, and the existence and nature of meaning and hope. At the deepest level, transforming vicarious trauma means identifying ways to nurture a sense of meaning and hope. What gives life and work meaning, and what instills or renews hope?
Transforming TraumaYou likely have sources of meaning, purpose, hope, and perspective in your life.
Some ways to connect (or reconnect) with these may be:
Reminding yourself of the importance and value of humanitarian work;
Staying connected with family, friends, and colleagues;
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Transforming Vicarious Trauma You likely have sources of meaning, purpose, hope, and perspective in your life. Some ways to connect (or reconnect) with these may be: Reminding yourself of the importance and value of humanitarian work; Staying connected with family, friends, and colleagues;
Transforming TraumaNoticing and deliberately paying attention to the ―little things
Marking transitions, celebrating joys, and mourning losses with people you care about
Taking time to reflect (e.g., by reading, writing, prayer, and meditation);
Transforming Vicarious Trauma Noticing and deliberately paying attention to the ―little things– small moments like sipping a cup of coffee, the sound of the wind in the trees, or brief connections with others; Marking transitions, celebrating joys, and mourning losses with people you care about through traditions, rituals, or ceremonies; Taking time to reflect (e.g., by reading, writing, prayer, and meditation); Identifying and challenging your own cynical beliefs; and Undertaking growth-promoting activities (learning, writing in a journal, being creative and artistic).
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Resilience / Resiliency There are many words for it: Flexibility Elasticity Adaptability Bounce Recover Recoil Rebound
What is Resiliency?
Good resilience is like a new rubberband…
Bouncing back isgood adjustment and a great wayto handle life!
Resiliency usually leads to good outcomes!
Resilience: “The ability to meet, learn from, and not be crushed by the challenges and stresses of life.”Source: Bounce Living, the Resilient Life, Robert Wicks, PhD Oxford Press, 2010
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Everyone will face challenges in their life: work, budget crisis's, marriage, family, death of a loved one, financial troubles, tough economic times, etc. Some things we can control, some we cannot. Being resilient means you have the ability to successfully move past those challenges and also to learn and grow from them.
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When people look at this video a lot of times they assume the focus is on the woman, it’s not the focus should be on the rubber band. How many times in life are stretch beyond are capacity. When the rubber band snapped did you notice how many people it impacted. It’s the same for us.
We all have Resiliency!
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Everyone is resilient to some degree. Resiliency isn’t the ability to stretch, it’s the ability to stretch and bounce back If we continuously build our resiliency skills, we will become more and more resilient and bouncing back from challenges will be easier. Improved resiliency leads to faster recovery from extreme psychological stress.
Secrets of Resilient People
Friends, family, Coworkers for support
TakeResponsibility
Use positive and empowering attitudes
Bounce back, move ahead and forward
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Some key points to what it takes to be a resilient person. Incorporate the Wingman concept here. A resilient person will be a better coworker by helping their fellow employee get through a hard time. When you’re not resilient you may bring the person down or make the situation worse. Families/Coworker/Friends…. Can notice problems first Build or break resiliency efforts Want contact with units to seek aid Are a source of information Can be strong allies Can be shown how to seek aid Want to help and save (Flash Forward, 2010)
Focus upon positives such as gratitude, blessings, delights, interests, and love
Cope with hard times through laughter, humor and fun!!
Make time to play & have fun!
Increase contacts & support from important people in your life – like your Coworkers!
Recognize changeable and unchangeable situations See challenges as opportunities for growth (Flash Forward, 2010)
More Resiliency Strategies
Physical Fitness• Manage your levels of
stress• Eat well• Get enough rest• Exercise
Mental Fitness• Take breaks & use
relaxing muscles• Maintain positive self-
esteem
Social Fitness• Talk to family, friends,
physician, pastor, counselor
• Build and maintain social support
• Get involved in community, group activities
Spiritual Fitness • Maintain a sense
of purpose• Strengthen faith
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A resilient person will try to be fit in all domains of their life: physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. Discuss ways to strengthen resiliency skills in each domain. We should identify areas which we are weak and target those areas to build and improve. Examples are provided in the slide but are not all inclusive. Approach is modeled on improving physical fitness: Mental agility techniques are trained and practiced. Internal emotional regulation is practiced. Situational awareness and preparedness is practiced. (Stanley and Jha, 2010)
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References:
Bounce Living, the Resilient Life, Robert Wicks, PhD Oxford Press, 2010
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The End! Questions, Comments, etc.
Recent relevant references:
• Bounce Living, the Resilient Life, Robert Wicks, PhD • Oxford Press, 2010• Newbill et al. (2010). Direct observational coding of staff who are the victims of
assault. Psychological Services, 7, 177-189.• Coleman, Paul, & Schatschneider (2007). Impact of staff attention on predicting
post-discharge community tenure of psychiatric inpatients. Psychological Services, 4, 306-315.
• Helmreich I,, et al. (2017), Psychological interventions for resilience enhancement in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. John Wiley & Sons.
• Quanbeck et al. (2007). Categorization of aggressive acts committed by chronically assaultive state hospital patients. Psychiatric Services, 58, 521-528.
• American Psychological Association Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance (2007). Training grid outlining best practices for recovery and improved outcomes for people diagnosed with serious mental illness.
• Berry, K., Barrowclough, C. & Haddock, G (2010). The role of expressed emotion in relationships between psychiatric staff and people with a diagnosis of psychosis: a review of the literature. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 37, 958-972.6/10/2019 . 23
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