Mental Health Workers' Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, And Self-Care

This is a 'must-buy book' for mental-health workers, licensed social workers, licensed professional counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists, and/or the organizations for who these helpers work. This books' research study focuses on keeping the helping work-force mentally and emotionally stable after encountering second-hand trauma from their clients or patients. First responders, social workers, and mental health professionals encounter experiences directly or indirectly through helping others in emergencies, following trauma care, and/or mental health care treatments. While these workers help others, they may also experience vicarious trauma or 're-experience' past traumas of their own as they are re-lived via their patients or clients. The researcher identifies care of symptoms presented by mental-health workers, licensed social workers, licensed professional counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists who are exposed to and may suffer VT/STS from their clients. This study documents how some social workers treat their own mental, emotional, and physical VT symptoms with 'self-care,' as well as how their supervisors can acknowledge and provide support directly to the mental health professionals to reduce or alleviate VT/STS.

• | Author: Soraya M Sawicki Lcsw, Soraya Sawicki
• | Publisher: Dbc Publishing
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 309 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948149109
• | ISBN-13: 9781948149105