The Effect of Childhood Trauma, Personal Wellness, Supervisory Working Alliance, and Organizational Factors on Vicarious Traumatization

Scholars have identified vicarious traumatization (VT) as one of the most extreme effects of working with traumatized clients; however, not all mental health therapists develop VT (Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995). Path analytic procedures were used to assess a comprehensive theoretical VT model base...

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Published inJournal of Mental Health Counseling Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 133 - 153
Main Authors Williams, Amy M, Helm, Heather M, Clemens, Elysia V
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Alexandria American Mental Health Counselors Association 01.04.2012
Subjects
Beliefs
Burnout
Child Abuse
Child psychology
Counseling
Counselor Client Relationship
Fatigue (Biology)
Interpersonal Relationship
Mental health
Mental health care
Mental Health Workers
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Schemata (Cognition)
Secondary traumatic stress
Supervision
Surveys
Therapists
Trauma
Victims of Crime
Violence
World Views
New York
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Summary:Scholars have identified vicarious traumatization (VT) as one of the most extreme effects of working with traumatized clients; however, not all mental health therapists develop VT (Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995). Path analytic procedures were used to assess a comprehensive theoretical VT model based on constructivist self-development theory (CSDT). The model explained 46% of the variance in VT in mental health therapists surveyed.
ISSN:1040-2861
2163-5749
DOI:10.17744/mehc.34.2.j3l62k872325h583