Assignment: Vicarious Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Assignment: Vicarious Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Assignment: Vicarious Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A brief explanation of which individual(s) has vicarious trauma and which has post-traumatic stress disorder. Then identify the symptoms of the individual(s) with vicarious trauma and explain how each symptom informed your selection. Finally, explain any insights you gained about vicarious trauma related to the video. Be specific and use the current literature to support your response.

Readings

  • Course Text: Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized
    • Chapter 2, “Survival Strategies: A Framework for Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress and Coping in Helpers”
    • Chapter 4, “Working with People with PTSD: Research Implications”
  • Course Text: Treating compassion fatigue
    • Chapter 5, “Measuring Compassion Satisfaction as Well as Fatigue: Developmental History of the Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Test”
  • Course Text: Secondary traumatic stress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, and educators
    • Chapter 2, “Secondary Exposure to Trauma and Self-Reported Distress Among Therapists”
  • Course Text: Quitangon, G. & Evces, M. (2015). Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience. New York: Routlege
  • Chapter 2
  • Article: Bride, B., Radey, M., & Figley, C. (2007). Measuring compassion fatigue. Clinical social work, 35(3), 155–163.
  • Article: Stamm, B. H. (2010). The concise ProQOL manual. Retrieved from https://proqol.org/uploads/ProQOLManual.pdf

ESSAY GUIDELINES -:

Write a 1000-1500-word essay addressing each of the following points. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be two main sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper.

Support your ideas with at least three (3) sources using citations in your essay. Make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page in correct APA do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Length: 1000-1500 words; answers must thoroughly address the prompts in a clear, concise manner.

Evaluation Criteria for Paper

(10%) Resources used as rationale for approaches and as sources of content

_____ 5. (20%) write paper in a scholarly manner
(4%) Format includes title page, body of paper, & reference page, with pages numbered

_____ 5. (20%) Write the Paper in a scholarly manner
(4%) Format includes title page, body of paper, & reference page, with pages numbered