Abstract:Professional counselors who provided services to those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita completed the K6+ (screen for severe mental illness), the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, and the Professional Quality of Life Scale. Results indicated that participants who survived the hurricanes had higher levels of posttraumatic growth than participants who served as volunteers. Both volunteer and survivor-volunteer participants were susceptible to compassion fatigue. To further resiliency, self-care strategies w… Show more
“…Ashby et al () found that strong social networks and congruent values supported resilience and, in this study, participants expressed the importance of having a community of like‐minded persons who valued social justice as they did. Lambert and Lawson () and Utsey et al () found that emotional, social, and spiritual support improved resilience, and this finding was supported in this study. Although only two respondents spoke of their current spirituality, the importance of social support was expressed by all participants.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…Researchers have studied resilience in terms of specific diagnostic populations as well as in various developmental populations (i.e., Utsey, Bolden, Lanier, & Williams, ). Researchers have also examined the concept of professional resilience in various professions with high burn‐out rates, such as nursing (Hodges et al, ), occupational therapy (Ashby, Ryan, Gray, & James, ), social work (Greene, Galambos, & Lee, ), and counseling (Lambert & Lawson, ).…”
Section: Resiliencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their qualitative narrative inquiry of nine professional occupational therapists, Ashby et al () found that professional resilience was sustained by establishing support networks and finding a position in which the values of the employer and employee were congruent. In their quantitative study of 125 counselors who responded to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Lambert and Lawson () found that traumatized counselors who endorsed self‐care in terms of their emotional, social, physical, and spiritual needs were more resilient and better equipped to provide quality mental health services to their clients.…”
In this phenomenological study, the authors interviewed 4 African American male counselor educators about their social justice efforts. Resulting themes were lifelong commitment to social justice, reaction to resistance, professional and personal support, and the meaning of social justice work. Findings suggest that social justice work can increase professional resilience for African American male counselor educators.
“…Ashby et al () found that strong social networks and congruent values supported resilience and, in this study, participants expressed the importance of having a community of like‐minded persons who valued social justice as they did. Lambert and Lawson () and Utsey et al () found that emotional, social, and spiritual support improved resilience, and this finding was supported in this study. Although only two respondents spoke of their current spirituality, the importance of social support was expressed by all participants.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…Researchers have studied resilience in terms of specific diagnostic populations as well as in various developmental populations (i.e., Utsey, Bolden, Lanier, & Williams, ). Researchers have also examined the concept of professional resilience in various professions with high burn‐out rates, such as nursing (Hodges et al, ), occupational therapy (Ashby, Ryan, Gray, & James, ), social work (Greene, Galambos, & Lee, ), and counseling (Lambert & Lawson, ).…”
Section: Resiliencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their qualitative narrative inquiry of nine professional occupational therapists, Ashby et al () found that professional resilience was sustained by establishing support networks and finding a position in which the values of the employer and employee were congruent. In their quantitative study of 125 counselors who responded to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Lambert and Lawson () found that traumatized counselors who endorsed self‐care in terms of their emotional, social, physical, and spiritual needs were more resilient and better equipped to provide quality mental health services to their clients.…”
In this phenomenological study, the authors interviewed 4 African American male counselor educators about their social justice efforts. Resulting themes were lifelong commitment to social justice, reaction to resistance, professional and personal support, and the meaning of social justice work. Findings suggest that social justice work can increase professional resilience for African American male counselor educators.
“…Only one study reported that it did not find a significant positive relationship between self-care and VPTG (Lambert & Lawson, 2013), and this study reported little information on how self-care was defined or assessed. Common self-care activities cited in the studies reviewed include exercise, healthy eating, engaging in hobbies, prayer, and spiritual and religious activities (Arnold et al, 2005;Barrington & ShakespeareFinch, 2013;Satkunanayagam et al, 2010;Splevins et al, 2010;Tehrani, 2010).…”
Twenty-eight articles are included in this review, which provides the first comprehensive review of the vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG) literature. Five domains are presented. First, assessment methods of VPTG are reviewed; seventeen studies assessed VPTG using a measure designed for use with direct trauma survivors, three used a non-validated measure, and the remaining eight used an open-ended question. Second, the level of similarity between reports of direct and vicarious posttraumatic growth is examined. VPTG was found to be highly similar to direct posttraumatic growth; however, subtle differences between the two were also identified along with manifestations of growth unique to VPTG. Third, a range of psychological, cognitive, behavioural, interpersonal, and external factors that have been implicated to facilitate VPTG are presented. Fourth, research exploring the relationship between VPTG and secondary traumatic stress is examined. Three possible explanations are presented: a positive linear association, no association, and a more complex curvilinear relationship. Finally, limitations to the current body of knowledge and areas for future research are explored.
“…Among these, emotion‐focused coping strategies may be particularly critical (Linley, Felus, Gillett, & Joseph, ). To date, however, researchers have yet to examine PTSD and emotion‐focused coping among DMHCs—a group that may be uniquely exposed to shared trauma (Bell & Robinson, ; Lambert & Lawson, ) and reliant on emotional resources to cope effectively with disaster‐related stress while supporting and assisting disaster survivors.…”
The authors surveyed 235 disaster mental health counselors (DMHCs) for levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity. A correlational design was used to examine the roles of adult attachment security, emotion regulation, and mindfulness in predicting PTSD symptoms among this group. Each of the 3 predictors was negatively correlated with PTSD symptom severity, and data supported a mediating role for emotion regulation. Results may inform DMHCs, other counselors, and individuals who train or deploy DMHCs.
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