Discussion Post: Training Methods
Your thoughts on the importance of training trauma-response helping professionals prior to their engagement in trauma work. Then describe the trauma-response helping professional you selected in the media carousel. As a counselor, explain how you could help this individual prevent vicarious trauma prior to his or her exposure to trauma and why.
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.
Readings
1) Course Text: Compassion Fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized
• Chapter 6, "Debriefing and Treating Emergency Workers"
2) Course Text: Secondary traumatic stress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, and educators
• Chapter 10, "Kelengakutelleghpat: An Arctic Community-Based Approach to Trauma"
• Chapter 13, "Self-care and The Vulnerable Therapist"
3) Course Text: Quitangon, G. & Evces, M. (2015). Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience. New York: Routlege
• Chapter 7 & 11
4) Article: Adler, A. B., Castro, C., & McGurk, D. (2009). Time-driven battle mind psychological debriefing: A group-level early intervention in combat. Military Medicine, 174(1), 21-28.
5) Article: Juhnke, G. (1997). After school violence: An adapted critical incident stress debriefing model for student survivors. Elementary School Guidance & Counseling, 31(3), 163-171.
6) Article: Miller, J. (2003). Critical incident debriefing and social work: Expanding the frame. Journal of Social Service Research, 30(2), 7-25.