Shared Trauma: The Therapist's Increased Vulnerability

By Karen W. Saakvitne. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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Compassion fatigue and resilience: A qualitative analysis of social work practice (2015, background): “Saakvitne (2002) has documented the importance of maintaining nurturing and meaningful personal relationships as a strategy of protection and self-care in the human services.”
Shared Traumatic Stress among Social Workers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2015, background): “, 1997) and shared traumatic reality (KeinanKon, 1998; Nuttman-Shwartz and Dekel, 2009; Baum, 2010, 2014; Dekel and Baum, 2010), the term that has been increasingly used to reflect the distinct impact of trauma that is simultaneously personal and professional is shared traumatic stress (SdTS) (Altma”
Compassion Fatigue and Countertransference: Two Different Concepts (2010, background): “The supervisor can help the clinician to develop greater professional supports as a way of maintaining personal coherence (Saakvitne 2002).”
Shared Trauma: When the Professional is Personal (2012, background): “Subsequently, the term shared trauma (Altman and Davies 2002; Saakvitne 2002; Tosone and Bialkin 2003; Tosone et al. 2003; Tosone 2006) was introduced into the professional literature to describe narrative accounts of clinicians exposed to the same collective trauma as their clients.”
Intervention in a Shared Traumatic Reality: A New Challenge for Social Workers (2010, background): “Saakvitne (2002) used the terms ‘shared trauma’ and/or ‘shared tragedy’ when referring to the vulnerability experienced by both patients and therapists.”