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Author Saakvitne, Karen W.

Title Transforming the pain : a workbook on vicarious traumatization / Karen W. Saakvitne, Laurie Anne Pearlman ; with the staff of the Traumatic Stress Institute/Center for Adult & Adolescent Psychotherapy, Daniel J. Abrahamson [and others].

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.8521 S111T    Check Shelf
Description 159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A Norton professional book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155).
Contents Introduction -- What is vicarious traumatization? -- Assessing vicarious traumatization -- Addressing and transforming vicarious traumatization -- Exercises for individuals, dyads, and groups -- Maintaining the commitment.
Summary "In your profession, do you help or work with people who have been traumatized? Do you listen to stories of abuse, suffering, or trauma from your clients every day? If so, you know it is impossible to hear and bear witness to trauma survivors' experiences and not be changed. You know firsthand the personal cost of the work you do and the struggle to make sense of powerful, often painful, feelings and altered beliefs. This transformation of a helper's inner experience is called vicarious traumatization (VT); it is an inescapable effect of trauma work. Transforming the Pain is the first work book to address VT. It is designed to take care of the helper - to help you assess, address, and transform your own VT." "Transforming the Pain defines and describes the VT process and offers reassurance that you are not alone with these painful experiences. It includes self-assessment worksheets, and guidelines and specific exercises for addressing VT and improving self-care. It is designed to be used by a wide range of professionals and paraprofessionals, including, but not limited to, therapists, police, medical personnel, crisis workers, and clergy." "After working with Transforming the Pain, you will find that you have a new awareness of the ways your work affects your life as well as new skills and and tools to improving your emotional well-being."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Secondary traumatic stress -- Prevention.
Psychotherapists -- Job stress.
Emergency medical personnel -- Job stress.
Burn out (Psychology) -- Prevention.
Psychological debriefing.
Countertransference (Psychology)
Countertransference (DNLM)D003379
Burnout, Professional -- prevention & control (DNLM)D002055Q000517
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- therapy (DNLM)D013313Q000628
Countertransference (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00881347
Burn out (Psychology) -- Prevention (OCoLC)fst00841905
Emergency medical personnel -- Job stress (OCoLC)fst00908541
Psychological debriefing (OCoLC)fst01081343
Psychotherapists -- Job stress (OCoLC)fst01081737
Secondary traumatic stress -- Prevention.
Psychotherapists -- Job stress.
Emergency medical personnel -- Job stress.
Burn out (Psychology) -- Prevention.
Psychological debriefing.
Added Author Pearlman, Laurie A.
ISBN 0393702332
9780393702330
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