Vicarious trauma and disaster mental health : understanding risks and promoting resilience

The Resource Vicarious trauma and disaster mental health : understanding risks and promoting resilience
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Vicarious trauma and disaster mental health : understanding risks and promoting resilience
Title remainder
understanding risks and promoting resilience
Statement of responsibility
edited by Gertie Quitangon, Mark R. Evces
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Language
eng
Summary
"Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national imperative. This book explores vicarious traumatization in mental health providers who respond to massive disasters by choice or by circumstance. What happens when clinicians share the trauma and vulnerability from the toll taken by a disaster with the victims they care for? How can clinicians increase resilience from disaster exposure and provide mental health services effectively? Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health offers insight and analysis of the research and theory behind vicarious trauma and compares and contrasts with other work-impact concepts such as burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. It proposes practical evidence-informed personal strategies and organizational approaches that address five cognitive schemas (safety, esteem, trust, control and intimacy) disrupted in vicarious trauma. With an emphasis on the psychological health and safety of mental health providers in the post-disaster workplace, this book represents a shift in perspective and provides a framework for the promotion of worker resilience in the standard of practice in disaster management"--
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Dewey number
616.85/21
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
RC480.8
LC item number
.V53 2015eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
WM 62
Series statement
Routledge psychosocial stress series
Series volume
50
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