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Wilson (psychology, Cleveland State U.) and Thomas, a clinical neuropsychologist in Florida, examine the ways in which professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients, and how this empathic strain can in turn pose a threat to treatment outcomes. They provide both a new instrument for assessing therapists' reactions to trauma treatment, and new empirical data drawn from an national survey.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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This book examines the ways in which professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients and how this empathic strain can, in turn, pose a threat to treatment outcomes. The first of its kind, this text vastly expands the potential of this field by providing both a new instrument for assessing therapists' reactions to trauma treatment and new empirical data drawn from an unprecedented national survey of how therapists' emotional reactions affect both the client and the therapist.
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Empathy in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD examines how professionals are psychologically impacted by their work with trauma clients. A national research study provides empirical evidence, documenting the struggle for professionals to maintain therapeutic equilibrium and empathic attunement with their trauma clients. Among the many important findings of this study, all participants reported being emotionally and psychologically affected by the work, often quite profoundly leading to changes in worldview, beliefs about the nature of humankind and the meaning of life.
John P. Wilson and Rhiannon Thomas set out to understand how to heal those who experience empathic strain in the course of their professional specialization. The data included in the book allows for the development of conceptual dynamic models of effective management of empathic strain, which may cause vicarious traumatization, burnout and serious countertransference processes.
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