Transforming the Pain A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization

by Pearlman, Laurie Anne; Saakvitne, Karen W.

• ISBN13: 9780393702330
• ISBN10: 0393702332
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This workbook provides tools for self-assessment, guidelines and activities for addressing vicarious traumatization, and exercises to use with groups of helpers.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	11	(2)
Acknowledgments	13	(4)
Introduction	17	(1)
Who Are We and Why Are We Writing this Workbook?	17	(2)
Who Can Benefit from this Workbook?	19	(1)
TSI/CAAP	20	(2)
Using this Workbook	22	(3)
What Is Vicarious Traumatization?	25	(26)
How to Recognize Vicarious Traumatization	27	(4)
Signs of Vicarious Traumatization	31	(10)
What Contributes to Vicarious Traumatization?	41	(4)
Vicarious Traumatization and Psychotherapy	45	(1)
The Countertransference-Vicarious Traumatization Cycle	46	(2)
Damage to Hope	48	(3)
Assessing Vicarious Traumatization	51	(20)
Personal Assessment Tools	52	(8)
Contributing Factors	53	(3)
Distress Level	56	(1)
Signs of VT	57	(3)
Other Tools for Self-Assessment	60	(1)
Assessing Self-Care	61	(6)
Self-Care	63	(4)
Assessment Tools for Groups	67	(4)
Making It Personal	68	(1)
Silent Witness	68	(3)
Addressing and Transforming Vicarious Traumatization	71	(18)
What Transforms Vicarious Traumatization?	71	(4)
Awareness, Balance, and Connection	75	(2)
Mindfulness and Acceptance	77	(1)
Realms of Intervention	78	(6)
Research Findings on Helpful Activities	84	(2)
What About Intrusive Imagery?	86	(3)
Exercises For Individuals, Dyads, and Groups	89	(44)
Mind, Body, Experience: Think, Act, Feel	90	(1)
Guidelines for Vicarious Traumatization Group Exercises	90	(1)
Mind: Thinking Exercises	91	(13)
Addressing and Transforming VT	94	(1)
Making a Commitment to Yourself	95	(1)
Write Yourself a Letter	96	(1)
Evaluate Your Personal VT Plan	97	(1)
Seven More Thinking Exercises	98	(2)
Success Stories	100	(1)
Creativity in Your Life	101	(1)
Your Professional Lifeline	102	(2)
Body: Action Exercises	104	(4)
Touch, Look, Listen	106	(1)
Toxic Waste Dump	107	(1)
Reclaiming Life and Laughter	107	(1)
Experience: Feeling Exercises	108	(25)
Creating a Self-Sculpture	110	(2)
Color and Transformation	112	(3)
Draw-a-Tree Series	115	(1)
Trees Across the Work Day	115	(4)
Befriending Emotion	119	(5)
Future Self	124	(3)
Conversation and Letters	127	(6)
Maintaining the Commitment	133	(14)
What Helps us Maintain Our Commitment?	133	(3)
What Gets in the Way?	136	(4)
What's at Stake: The Cost of Failing Yourself	140	(1)
The Rewards of Our Work	140	(1)
Models for Vicarious Traumatization Interventions	141	(3)
Identifying Next Steps	144	(3)
Next Steps	145	(2)
References	147	(4)
Annotated Bibliography	151	(6)
TSI/CAAP Resources	157