An Investigation of Secondary Traumatic Stress and Trauma-informed Care Utilization in School Personnel

Sprang, Ginny; Garcia, Antonio R.

doi:10.1007/s40653-022-00465-2

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“…TIC training serves to improve knowledge, reduce STS symptoms, and increase therapists' well-being [12,19]. In the current study, therapists with no TIC training or who were younger in age, more educated, and with greater seniority as therapists tended to have higher levels of STS (STS scale).…”

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“…The therapist's risk of suffering from secondary traumatic stress (STS) is of critical importance in a TIC setting. General personal safety and, in particular, protection from secondary traumatization are the two key principles in TIC, both for the client and for the therapist [13,16,17] Previous studies have examined the link between attitudes related to TIC and STS more often in the case of educators [18,19]. Therefore, in the present paper, we aim not only to investigate the relationship between therapists' attitudes toward TIC and their STS, but also to identify one of its important explanatory mechanisms: secondary traumatic self-efficacy.…”

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Who Will Save the Savior? The Relationship between Therapists’ Secondary Traumatic Stress, Secondary Stress Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes toward Trauma-Informed Care

Miller Itay,

Turliuc

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Therapists who treat traumatized preschool children are vulnerable to secondary traumatic stress. This study investigates the relationship between therapists’ attitudes toward trauma-informed care (TIC) and risk of secondary traumatic stress, with secondary traumatic self-efficacy as a mediating variable. Participants included Israeli social workers (N = 101) in preschool trauma frameworks, with 97.2% following trauma-informed care principles. The questionnaire combined three instruments: attitudes related to TIC (ARTIC), secondary traumatic stress (STS), and secondary traumatic stress efficacy (STSE). Therapists with less positive attitudes toward trauma-informed care showed higher levels of secondary traumatic stress (r[99] = −0.23, p = 0.019), while more positive attitudes predicted higher levels of secondary traumatic stress efficacy (r[99] = 40, p < 0.001). Secondary traumatic self-efficacy mediated the relationship between attitudes toward trauma-informed care and secondary traumatic stress (z = 2.72, p = 0.006). Therapists’ secondary traumatic stress may be reduced by improving positive attitudes toward trauma-informed care and enhancing their secondary traumatic self-efficacy.

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Who Will Save the Savior? The Relationship between Therapists’ Secondary Traumatic Stress, Secondary Stress Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes toward Trauma-Informed Care

Miller Itay,

Turliuc

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Predictors of Traumatization Among Humanitarian Aid Workers Working With Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Türkiye

Altınoğlu‐Dikmeer,

Ergül‐Topçu,

Karaaslan

et al. 2024

Journal Community Psychology

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Refugees and asylum‐seekers flee their countries due to conflict, violence or persecution and seek safety in another country. Professionals working with refugees in host countries are being exposed to the narratives of their traumatic experiences, an important risk factor for vicarious posttraumatic stress. The current study examined predictors for traumatic stress in humanitarian aid workers working with refugees and asylum seekers in Türkiye. We surveyed 156 participants (67.3% women) from various disciplines (psychologists, social workers, interpreters, lawyers etc.) to examine their traumatic stress, resilience and stress coping mechanisms. We used Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS), Adult Resilience Measure (ARM) and Coping Styles Inventory (CSI) for data collection. In this cross‐sectional study, data were collected online from participants who were contacted through snowball sampling method, starting with the participants working with refugees at public agencies and NGOs. The regression analyses showed that the level of traumatic stress is predicted by feelings of fatigue, number of years worked with the refugees, presence of previous psychological problems and being a social worker. The “relational resources” subdimension of resilience and “helpless coping style” are also significantly associated with traumatic stress. Considering the rapidly developing phenomenon of migration all over the world, the findings of the current study could contribute to improve protective and preventive interventions for the psychological wellbeing of humanitarian aid workers.

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Help , Teach , Counsel : How Terminology Changes in the ProQOL-5 Impact Score Reliability

Deaton,

Whitbeck

2024

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development

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An Investigation of Secondary Traumatic Stress and Trauma-informed Care Utilization in School Personnel

Cited by 7 publications

References 40 publications

Who Will Save the Savior? The Relationship between Therapists’ Secondary Traumatic Stress, Secondary Stress Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes toward Trauma-Informed Care

Who Will Save the Savior? The Relationship between Therapists’ Secondary Traumatic Stress, Secondary Stress Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes toward Trauma-Informed Care

Predictors of Traumatization Among Humanitarian Aid Workers Working With Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Türkiye

Help , Teach , Counsel : How Terminology Changes in the ProQOL-5 Impact Score Reliability

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