Vicarious Trauma

Masters’s Students: The Assignment (1-3 pages)

Use the Media Carousel of Trauma-Response Helping Professionals to select an interview.

• Identify yourself as a master’s level student on the title page of your application.
• Provide an analysis of the occupational stressors in the interview you selected.
• Explain the implication of these stressors on the development of vicarious trauma.
• Explain which two stressors you would find most challenging and explain why.
• Explain two ways you would address these stressors. Be specific.
• Reflect on your life experience, and describe at least one stressor that could impact, or could have impacted, the development of vicarious trauma and justify your selection.
• Explain two ways you could address those challenges.
• Use this week's Learning Resources or other current literature. 

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course