Vicarious traumatization in counsellors working in the New South Wales Sexual Assault Service: An exploratory study

Work and Stress

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 319-328

  Johnson, C N E ^a   Hunter, M ^b  

^a Upper Hunter Community Health Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burnout; Coping; Sexual assault counselling; Vicarious traumatization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL CRIME; STRESS;

EID: 0031410358     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678379708252995     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. DIXON, W. J. 1985, BMDP Statistical Software (Berkeley: University of California Press).
2. FIRTH, H., MCINTEE, J. and MCKEOWN, P. 1985, Maslach Burnout Inventory: factor structure and norms for British nursing staff, Psychological Reports, 57, 147-150.
3. FOLKMAN, S. and LAZARUS, R. S. 1980, An analysis of coping in a middle-aged community sample, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 22, 219-239.
4. FOLKMAN, S. and LAZARUS, R. S. 1985, If it changes it must be a process: study of emotion coping during three stages of a college examination, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 150-170.
5. FOLKMAN, S., LAZARUS, R. S., DUNKEL-SCHETTER, C., DELONGIS, A. and GRUEN, R. J. 1986, Dynamics of a stressful encounter: cognitive appraisal, coping and encounter outcomes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 992-1003.
6. FREUDENBERGER, H. J. 1977, Burn-out: occupational hazard of the child care worker, Child Care Quarterly, 6, 90-99.
7. GREEN, B. L., LINDY, J. D. and GRACE, M. C. 1988, Long term coping with combat stress, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1, 399-412.
8. HALEY, S. A. 1974, When the patient reports atrocities, Archives of General Psychiatry, 30, 191-196.
9. KARAKASHIAN, M. 1994, Countertransference issues in crisis work with natural disaster victims, Psychotherapy, 31, 334-341.
10. LEE, R. T. and ASHFORTH, B. E. 1990, On the meaning of Maslach's three dimensions of burnout, Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 743-747.
11. LINDY, J. D., GREEN, B. L. and GRACE, M. C. 1987, The Stressor criterion and post traumatic stress disorder, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, 175, 269-272.
12. MCCANN, L. and PEARLMAN, L. A. 1990, Vicarious traumatisation: a framework for understanding the psychological effects of working with victims, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 3, 131-149.
13. MCCOMBIE, S. L. and ARONS, J. H. 1980, Counselling rape victims, in S. L. McCombie (ed.), The Rape Crisis Intervention Handbook (New York: Plenum Press), 145-171.
14. MASLACH, C. and JACKSON, S. E. 1981, The measurement of experienced burnout, Journal of Occupational Behaviour, 2, 99-113.
15. MASLACH, C. and JACKSON, S. E. 1986a, Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual, 2nd edn (Palo Alto: Consulting Psychologists Press).
16. MASLACH, C. and JACKSON, S. E. 1986b, Burnout in organizational settings, in C.Maslach (ed.), Burnout: The Cost of Caring (New York: Prentice Hall).
17. PIERCE, C. M. and MOLLOY, G. N. 1989, The construct validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory: some data from down under, Psychological Reports, 65, 1340-1342.
18. PROSSER, D., JOHNSON, S., KUIPERS, E., SZMUKLER, G., BEBBINGTON, P. and THORNICROFT, G. 1996, Mental health 'burnout' and job satisfaction among hospital and community based mental health staff, British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 334-337.
19. RATLIFF, N. 1988, Stress and burnout in the helping professions. Social Casework, The Journal of Contemporary Social Work, 69, 147-154.
20. ROGERS, E. R. 1987, Professional burnout: a review of a concept, The Clinical Supervisor, 5, 91-105.
21. ROSE, D. S. 1986, Worse than death: psychodynamics of rape victims and the need for psychotherapy, The American Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 817-824.
22. SCHAUBEN, L. J. and FRAZIER, P. A. 1995, Vicarious trauma: the effects on female counsellors working with sexual violence survivors, Psychology of Women Quarterly, 19, 49-64.
23. STEVENS, G. B. and O'NEILL, P. 1983, Expectation and burnout in the developmental disabilities field, American Journal of Community Psychology, 11, 615-627.