Aid Worker Support Information
Our team has created a brief pocket card that you can carry with you to remind you of how important it is to take care of yourself and those working with you. The strategies suggested are based on the experiences of other people working in crisis settings and on research from around the world. Please feel free to distribute this card widely.
headington-institute.orgThis site provides a well organized array of information about psychosocial issues, interventions, and supports for those in need of aid as well as for the workers providing aid. Specific information about supporting workers can be found under the "Working With Traumatized People" link.
Secondary/Vicarious/Compassion Fatigue Handouts
One Page Handout on Secondary and Vicarious Trauma. People who work in “helping professions” are called to respond to individual, community, national, and even international crises. Health care professionals, social service workers, teachers, attorneys, police officers, firefighters, clergy, airline and other transportation staff, disaster site clean-up crews, and others who offer assistance at the time of the event or later, may be negatively affected by their contact with these events.
Secondary and Vicarious Trauma (word format)
One Page Handout on Secondary and Vicarious Trauma in ms word format.
Prevention Suggestions
This is a list of prevention suggestions that
were developed for clinicians so it may not apply well to field-workers.
Feel free to edit it as you like
APA Fostering Resilience in Mental Health Workers
Fostering Resilience in Response to Terrorism
Among Mental Health Workers
Telehealth for Prevention and Intervention of the Negative Effects of
Caregiving
This is a brief article from the ISTSS
StressPoints that outlines the general theory of Secondary Traumatic Stress
and some ideas about prevention through technology-mediated support.
Annotated list
of STS and TS resources
This links to the Rural Care Traumatic Stress and
Secondary Traumatic Stress Page that has additional information and links to
manuals and other resources.
Work-Related Secondary Traumatic Stress
This is a brief paper on the theory of secondary
trauma.
Measures
This page includes links and scoring and handout information to the 1. Professional Quality of Life Scale: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatitgue Scale 2. The Stressful Life Experiences Scale 3. PCL (PTSD Check List)
Other Links
Treatment centers from all over the United States have come together to form a new coalition, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The Network, which is currently comprised of 54 centers, is being funded by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services through a Congressional initiative, the Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.
Pilots Database
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD, and is available to the public on computer systems maintained by Dartmouth College. There is no charge for using the database, and no account or password is required. As of 31 December 2003 there were 24,945 references (almost all including abstracts) in the database. The database is updated bimonthly, and a list of the most recent additions is available in PDF form.
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
National Center for PTSD
This is a rich site with information good for handouts and for giving to the press.
David Baldwin
These Trauma Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and dissociation, whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. The purpose of this award winning site is to provide information for clinicians and researchers in the traumatic-stress field. Specifically, my interests here include both clinical and research aspects of trauma responses and their resolution.
ISTSS Public Education Pamplets
Pamphlets include What Is Traumatic Stress? When a Friend or Loved One Has Been Traumatized Mass Disasters, Trauma, and Loss Sudden Traumatic Loss Trauma and Relationships Indirect Trauma (for providers) Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse Problems Intimate Partner Violence Children and Trauma What Is ISTSS?
Rural-Care
This is a website on the intersection of healthcare, traumatic stress, culture and technology. Some of the pages are quite out of date but the information on Secondary Traumaitc Stress is up to date.
Disaster and Terrorism Links
This is a general purpose list of links to disaster and terrorism responding.
Rescue Worker Resources
Rescue Worker and other Helper Resources (scroll down to middle of the page)
Humanities & Social Sciences Online
H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe.
This project is supported in part by grant # 1 D1B TM 00042-01 from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services
Administration, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. The contents are
the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the
official views of DHHS.