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    The document discusses vicarious trauma that providers may experience when working with trauma survivors. It defines vicarious trauma as the emotional impact of hearing clients' trauma stories. Provider reactions can include behaviors like absenteeism, exhaustion, and detachment, as well as changes in interpersonal relationships, values, and job performance. The document provides strategies for providers to manage vicarious trauma, such as establishing boundaries, advocating for supervision, and engaging in self-care rituals. It also outlines principles for harm reduction-based physical spaces, including ensuring health and dignity, participant autonomy and centered services, and consideration of sociocultural and pragmatic factors.

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    The document discusses vicarious trauma that providers may experience when working with trauma survivors. It defines vicarious trauma as the emotional impact of hearing clients' trauma stories. Provider reactions can include behaviors like absenteeism, exhaustion, and detachment, as well as changes in interpersonal relationships, values, and job performance. The document provides strategies for providers to manage vicarious trauma, such as establishing boundaries, advocating for supervision, and engaging in self-care rituals. It also outlines principles for harm reduction-based physical spaces, including ensuring health and dignity, participant autonomy and centered services, and consideration of sociocultural and pragmatic factors.

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    The document discusses vicarious trauma that providers may experience when working with trauma survivors. It defines vicarious trauma as the emotional impact of hearing clients' trauma stories. Provider reactions can include behaviors like absenteeism, exhaustion, and detachment, as well as changes in interpersonal relationships, values, and job performance. The document provides strategies for providers to manage vicarious trauma, such as establishing boundaries, advocating for supervision, and engaging in self-care rituals. It also outlines principles for harm reduction-based physical spaces, including ensuring health and dignity, participant autonomy and centered services, and consideration of sociocultural and pragmatic factors.

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    HARM REDUCTION & PLACE:

    THE SOCIAL & PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

    TYPES OF TRAUMA

    Community Historical Circumstantial Individual


    Ex: Tuskegee Study Ex: Mayflower Ex: War on Drugs

    Natural Disaster Intergenerational Chronic Vicarious


    Ex: War

    What Is Vicarious Trauma?

    The emotional residue of exposure that counselors/providers have from working with people as
    they are hearing their trauma stories & become witnesses to the pain, fear, terror that trauma
    survivors have endured.

    PROVIDER REACTIONS TO VICARIOUS TRAUMA


    Behavior Interpersonal Values/Beliefs Job Performance

    • Frequent job tardiness • Staff conflict • Lack of appreciation • Low motivation


    • Anger / Irritability • Blaming others • Dissatisfaction • Increased errors
    • Exhaustion • Lack of collaboration • Negative perception • Decreased quality
    • Talking to oneself • Poor relationships • Loss of interest • Avoidance of job
    • Rejecting physical/ • Impatience • Apathy responsibilities
    emotional closeness • Poor communication • Detachment • Over-involved in details/
    • Overwork • Avoidance of working • Hopelessness perfectionism
    • Absenteeism with participants with • Low self image
    • Dropping out of trauma histories • Worried about not doing
    community affairs • Withdrawal & isolation enough
    from colleagues

    Revised 2020
    FOR MORE RESOURCES, VISIT HARMREDUCTION.ORG
    /HarmReductionCoalition /HarmReductionCoalition @harmreduction @harmreduction
    HARM REDUCTION & PLACE: THE SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

    STRATEGIES TO MANAGE VICARIOUS TRAUMA


    • Boundaries: establishing & maintaining loving but protective boundaries around personal free time/self care.
    • Advocate: request organizational support regarding Peer Supervision or Clinical Supervision.
    • End of Work Day Ritual: a ritual that signals your brain that your work day has ended & your free time has started that is
    meaningful for you. Ex.) taking a shower, light a candle, set a timer to process work day, etc.
    • Keep an ongoing to-do list if you are outside of work to get ideas out & not worry you will forget.
    • Give yourself permission to fully experience emotional reactions. Don’t keep emotions “bottled up.”

    ENGAGING WITH PEOPLE Connection


    Either the first time they’re engaging in services
    • Physical space
    or going to a new place, who & how are they being
    • Social space
    connected to services?
    • Provider experience
    • Services structure Expectations
    What might someone want to know before they
    Connection receive a service or arrive at a place of services?

    Waiting
    Staying Between the time someone gets to the space &
    Expectations receives the services, what are aspects of the
    Engaged physical or social space that could be comfortable
    or triggering?

    Receiving
    While someone is getting their service, what does
    the provider experience look like?

    Receiving Waiting Staying engaged


    This is the 10 minutes or 45 days between the last
    time they connected with services & the next time;
    what about the services structure may promote or
    be a barrier to returning?

    PRAXIS OF HARM REDUCTION BASED PHYSICAL SPACES


    Health & Participant Participant Sociocultural Participant Pragmatism &
    Dignity Autonomy Centered Factors Involvement Realism
    Services

    • Affirming • Having supplies • Offering what • Multi-lingual • Create message • Consider posting
    messaging & resources in participants say resources boards for community
    within space spaces that are is most important • Posters that participants agreements in
    • Bathrooms accessible without (e.g. access to explicitly state to contribute public
    accessible having to ask staff chargers, phones, that all people feedback or • Create
    to both • Allowing for computers) are welcome share resources alternative
    participants & participants to • Variety of images with others spaces for
    staff members come/leave freely in the space • Elections for people who
    services & space need to move/be
    changes alone/pace

    Revised 2020
    FOR MORE RESOURCES, VISIT HARMREDUCTION.ORG
    /HarmReductionCoalition /HarmReductionCoalition @harmreduction @harmreduction

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