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Understanding vicarious trauma - Centacare
The Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise Understanding vicarious trauma Exploring cumulative stress, fatigue and trauma in a frontline community services setting Jonathon Louth, Tanya Mackay, George Karpetis & Ian Goodwin-Smith June 2019 A research report prepared by the The Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise for Centacare Catholic Family Services It s a side effect of empathy I think; we re all going to get it at some level. It s a spectrum I think, vicarious trauma , we re all going to get affected by other people s stuff just based on being empathetic human beings. Focus group participant 1 2 Contents Introduction .. 6 Organisational Setting .. 8 Internal policy framework .. 9 Literature Review .. 11 vicarious trauma .. 11 Compassion Fatigue .. 12 Burnout.
Vicarious trauma is an unavoidable consequence of working with trauma survivors. For workers in the caring professions, this can mean actual harm over time. Indeed, there are workers who feel that their experiences are less ‘vicarious’ and represent direct trauma (Pack, 2013).
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