Researchers say they’re anxious that consuming a deluge of harrowing information might depart many individuals with “vicarious trauma.”
In a yr of violence and struggling, right here and world wide, harrowing experiences and pictures have flooded information channels and social media feeds, affecting even those that haven’t personally witnessed the horrors.
That has two Boston College researchers bracing for a surge in “vicarious trauma”: misery from secondhand publicity to ugly occasions by information, our screens, or from counseling traumatized folks.
Steven Sandage directs analysis at BU’s Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute and is a professor of psychology of faith and theology on the Faculty of Theology. Laura Captari is a researcher and employees psychologist on the Danielsen Institute. They’ve studied vicarious trauma in non secular leaders and therapists and developed CHRYSALIS, a free on-line program for caregivers to fortify their very own resilience as they counsel traumatized congregants and sufferers. Greater than 400 folks have gone by this system. The Danielsen Institute treats folks with psychological well being issues and trains medical psychologists and social staff.
Right here, Captari and Sandage clarify their analysis and what we are able to do to guard in opposition to these probably traumatizing instances:
Supply: Boston University
