SWK 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Occupational Hazard, Intrusive Thought, Job Satisfaction
22 Jan 2019
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Primary continued exposure: living in a war zone, persistent child abuse. Secondary trauma: social workers who work with clients/first responders who have experienced primary trauma. (work related trauma). You are not in actual danger, not at the scene of a traumatic event. Stories described to you verbally, video, audio recordings. Can result in compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Refers to profound emotional and physical exhaustion that help professional and caregivers can develop over the course of their career. Lose empathy, hope, compassion, for others and ourselves. Profound shift that workers experience in their world view after exposure to clients who have experienced serious trauma. Fundamental belief altered and damaged after repeated exposure to traumatic material. Over time transfers to worker and the images, senses of traumatic experience are real to worker even though they did not experience it. Intrusive thoughts, nightmares that do not belong to you. Burnout: physical and emotional exhaustion workers experience when they have low job satisfaction.
