Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading content…
Transcript

What does it look like?

Physical

What can we do?

Share an experience

Did you see a change?

What has worked for you?

What has not worked for you?

accept

nonjudgmental

Short Activity

Write your feelings for the pictures shown

Behavioral

Psychological

Too much?

Too little?

Bowley, J., Cohen, K., Joseph, S., Murray, C., & Splevins, K.A. (2010). Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Interpreters. Qualitative Health Research. 20(12), 1705-1716. Retrieved from SAGE Journals. doi:10.1177/1049732310377457

Clare, Karen, RECOGNISING OUR HUMANNESS, Minimising the impact of interpreting on our professional and personal selves. AUSIT 13th NATIONAL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING JILL BLEWETT MEMORIAL LECTURESaturday 4th November 2000Lennons Hotel Brisbane. Retrieved from: http://ausit.org/AUSIT/Documents/2000_jbl.pdf

Creech, Sean and Trace Fleming-Smith, Where did it go? Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Secondary Trauma in Social Work. Retrieved from: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxraW5kY2FyZTR1fGd4Ojc3NWNjMmM3Mzc2Y2I1Njg

Harvey, M.A. (2003). Shielding Yourself From the Perils of Empathy: The Case of Sign Language Interpreters. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 8

(2), 207-213. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42658653

Harvey, Michael A. (2001). The hazards of empathy: Vicarious trauma of interpreters for the Deaf. http://www.michaelharvey-phd.com/pages/hazards.htm.

Macdonald, Jami L. (2015) "Vicarious Trauma as Applied to the Professional Sign Language Interpreter," Montview Liberty University Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 1: Iss 1, Article 6.

Vigor, J. (2012). Vicarious Trauma and the Professional Interpreter. The Trauma & Mental Health Report. Retrieved from: http://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/2012/01/vicarious-trauma and-the-professional- interpreter

Mitigation

What about us?

Deliver the news and the reaction

Repeated exposure to oppression

CPC

"no correlation between interpreter's years of experience and the degree of severity in struggling with vicarious trauma"

(Andert & Trites)

WHO?

Hair dressers

Lawyers

Police officers

Social workers

Environmentalists

Healthcare

Doctors

Nurses

Front desk

Custodians

Billing

Interpreters

Shared Background

(-)

Over identification

Reliving trauma

Emotionally intense relationship

(+)

Increased compassion

New perspective

VPTG

(Bowley, et al.)

Grounding

Support

"absorbing of another person's trauma"

(Vigor)

"emotional residue from exposure"

cumulative repeated

What do

I control?

HYDRATE

Reduces Cortisol

Vicarious Trauma:

The Aftermath of Empathy

"Walking in someone's shoes"

"Seeing through someone's eyes"

"...not only are interpreters exposed to disturbing events and information, but they channel it..."

(Vigor)

Michelle Clements

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi