Vicarious Trauma Resources

Hello Erin,

I know you said handout, not book. But Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is an excellent book  on this topic. There is a chapter within it that names 16 warning signs of what she refers to as the "trauma exposure response".  In addition to describing what this looks like, she also explores how and why it happens, and offers ideas for the development of caring, healing organizations. I highly recommend it!

Hi Erin - A research-informed resource from the Devereux Center for Resilient Children to help adults reflect on their protective factors and well-being can be found on the website www.centerforresilientchildren.org  Click on Adults.  You will find a one page survey called Devereux Adult Resilience Survey that you can download and use freely.  There is also other info there about adult resilience.  Hope this helps!

Hi Erin,

I just wanted to second M Batson's comment about the Trauma Stewardship book. It is a solid resource and really captures the breath of issues related to vicarious trauma. Good Luck!

http://www.headington-institut...rious-trauma-handout

Hi Erin,

I would suggest checking out the National Child Traumatic Stress Network resources- here is the link to one of the STS/VT fact sheets: http://www.nctsn.org/resources...ary-traumatic-stress

Another great resource is TEND Academy  http://www.tendacademy.ca/ out of Canada.  I second the NCTSN resources.  

We have used a training on Compassion Fatigue by Eric Gentry (Compassion Unlimited LLC) He provides awareness on our physical responses to vicarious trauma (the vagus nerve/neurobiology of stress) and then walks you through a variety of coping skills and stress reduction techniques. The training is available in DVD form. I liked it because he focuses on validating vicarious trauma for providers and then offering perspective shifts as a way of eliminating the need for a stress response in the body.

Another great resource is Buddha and the Brain; Rick Hansen talks about stress response and perspective shifts as well. 

The Sanctuary Institute website (Dr. Sandra Bloom) also has tons of free resources, articles and cirriculums for purchase that include ways to address parallel process and encourage emotion regulation.

I love this resource: http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/...are-starter-kit.html

I would also like to suggest a film "Portraits of Professional Caregivers.  Their Passion. Their Pain: " which discusses vicarious trauma and profiles professionals from many disciplines - nursing, education, police, hospice, child welfare etc... - how working with individuals with trauma has affected them and what coping strategies they have used.   We recently screened it to an audience of 200 along with Paper Tigers.

Here are a few resources we are looking at:

http://www.nctsn.org/sites/def..._training_manual.pdf

http://www.proqol.org/