Homework: Master's Students
1) Identify yourself as a master's student on the title page of your assignment.
2) Describe the components of the assessment.
3) Explain the significance of each section of the assessment for vicarious trauma. Be specific.
4) Explain the significance of using an assessment in the treatment and prevention of vicarious trauma for clients and counselors. Be specific.
5) Support your answers using the learning resources and current literature.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Learning Resources
Media
1) Media Carousel: Trauma-Response Helping Professionals
Readings
1) Course Text: Secondary traumatic stress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, and educators
a. Chapter 5, "Helpers' Responses to Trauma Work: Understanding and Intervening in an Organization"
b. Chapter 9, "Trauma-Based Psychiatry for Primary Care"
2) Course Text: Compassion Fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized
a. Chapter 3, "Working with People in Crisis: Research Implications"
3) Course Text: Quitangon, G. & Evces, M. (2015). Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience. New York: Routlege
a. Chapter 10
4) Article: Way, I., VanDeusen, K., & Cottrell, T. (2007). Vicarious trauma: Predictors of clinicians' disrupted cognitions about self esteem and self-intimacy. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 16(4), 81-98.