Transforming the Pain A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization [Paperback]

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 important 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 helpers inner experience is called vicarious traumatization (VT); it is an inescapable effect of trauma work.This workbook provides tools for self-assessment, guidelines andactivities for addressing vicarious traumatization, and exercises touse with groups of helpers.