Vicarious resilience: Complexities and variations.

Edelkott, Noëmi; Engström, David; Hernandez-Wolfe, Pilar; Gangsei, David

doi:10.1037/ort0000180

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“…These data are similar to the concept of vicarious resilience, where health care providers are positively affected through observing their patients’ successes and personal growth. Vicarious resilience is a term first introduced by Hernandez, Gangsei, and Engstrom (2007) that described the positive impact on therapists and their personal growth on witnessing their patients’ resilience to adversity and trauma (Edelkott, Engstrom, Hernandez-Wolfe, & Gangsei, 2016). Hernandez et al (2007) first examined vicarious resilience in the context of trauma therapy and spoke to increased hope on witnessing their patient’s recovery.…”

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Nurse–Patient Connectedness and Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life: Experiences of Volunteering at a Pediatric Oncology Camp

Cherven

Jordan

Hale³

et al. 2019

J Pediatr Oncol Nurs

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Objective: Pediatric oncology nurses can experience burnout, vicarious traumatization, and compassion fatigue related to the unique stressors of their profession. Opportunities to enhance nurses’ professional commitment and nurse–patient connectedness may mitigate these stressors. This study explored the impact of volunteering at a local oncology camp on pediatric oncology nurses’ professional quality of life and connectedness with their oncology patients. Method and Sample: Pediatric oncology nurses from a single institution were invited to participate in this mixed methods study. Participants completed a survey assessing professional quality of life, professional commitment, and patient connectedness. Nurses who had oncology camp volunteer experience were invited to participate in a qualitative interview. Results: Compared with noncamp nurses ( n = 23), camp nurses ( n = 25) had increased odds of a low burnout score (odds ratio = 6.74, 95% confidence interval [1.10, 41.43], p = .039) and increased odds of a high compassion satisfaction score (odds ratio = 4.69, 95% confidence interval [1.14, 19.32], p = .033). Qualitative interviews supported the impact of volunteering at camp on nurses’ personal and professional perspective, nursing practice, and delivery of person-centered care. Conclusion: Volunteering at a pediatric oncology camp provided nurses the opportunity to engage with patients, share experiences, and view patients as individuals while still maintaining professional boundaries. Nurses who volunteer at camp described a perspective moving beyond patient-centered to person-centered care, and for some pediatric oncology nurses, camp volunteering may be a novel way to mitigate burnout and an important tool to enhance resiliency.

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Nurse–Patient Connectedness and Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life: Experiences of Volunteering at a Pediatric Oncology Camp

Cherven

Jordan

Hale³

et al. 2019

J Pediatr Oncol Nurs

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“…Compassion satisfaction has also been associated with a lower risk of difficulties such as burnout [17]. Moreover, researchers have identified vicarious resilience among therapists as a result of contact with resilient people who have experienced trauma [18,19].…”

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Protective Factors in Resilient Volunteers Facing Compassion Fatigue

González-Méndez

Díaz

Aguilera

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Volunteers may be exposed to the negative consequences of dealing with human suffering, such as compassion fatigue. However, very little is known about the protective factors that contribute to their resilience. The aim of this study was to analyze the extent to which different strengths (psychological endurance, purpose, and social support), orientations to happiness, and compassion satisfaction predict volunteers’ resilient outcomes (subjective well-being and post-traumatic growth) and compassion fatigue. Participants were 116 Spanish Red Cross volunteers (77.8% women). They were separately classified into three groups (low, medium, and high) according to the 33rd and 66th percentile scores on each resilient outcome. Univariate analyses of variance and post-hoc comparisons computed separately showed significant differences in most factors analyzed, except compassion fatigue. Logistic regressions revealed that endurance, organization support, and eudaimonia allowed for the correct classification of 83.3% of those high in post-traumatic growth (82.2% of the true-positives and 84.4% of the true-negatives). In addition to endurance and organization support, purpose was the strongest predictor of well-being (85.7% were correctly classified, 82.8% of the true-negatives and 88.2% of the true-positives). Finally, lower endurance predicted compassion fatigue (65.7% and 61.3% of the true-negatives and 69.4% of the true-positives). Findings indicate ways to promote resilience among volunteers.

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“…By reexamining their inner strengths, relationships, spirituality, appreciation of life and other possibilities, many people who struggle with trauma manage to find meaning in their suffering, leading to increased life satisfaction and growth (Triplett, Tedeschi, Cann, Calhoun, & Reeves, 2012). Concepts of vicarious resilience (Edelkott, Engstrom, Hernandez‐Wolfe, & Gansgei, ) and professional posttraumatic growth (Bauwens & Tosone, ) were also developed to describe positive alterations of clinicians’ self and world conception following their empathetic engagements with survivors.…”

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Hurtful Gifts? Trauma and Growth Transmission Among Local Clinicians in Postearthquake Haiti

Jaimes

Hassan

Rousseau

2019

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Although working with trauma survivors can be a source of both deleterious and positive transformations in mental health professionals, little is known about the experience of clinicians in shared traumatic contexts, particularly in the Global South, where most humanitarian crises occur. In collective disasters or armed conflicts, the personal and professional experiences of mental health staff inform each other, situating the clinical space at the intersection between singular and collective spheres. Drawing on an intersubjective and socioecological perspective, this qualitative study explored the ways in which working in a shared traumatic context affected mental health and psychosocial staff in postearthquake Haiti. We interviewed 22 local mental health workers in the capital, Port-au-Prince, 2.5 years after the 2010 disaster. We coded and thematically analyzed interviews using an iterative process, based on grounded theory principles. Thematic analysis uncovered four dynamic poles in clinicians' narratives: balancing duty and desire to help, experiencing fragility and strength, negotiating separation and connection, and sharing hurt and hope. Our findings suggest clinicians considered their work mainly as a source of strength in the face of adversity, whereas experiences of trauma and growth transmissions were mutual and intimately intertwined. We discuss the complexities of clinical work in shared traumatic settings as well as the dynamic interplay between professionals' experiences of suffering and growth. We conclude with recommendations on ways to involve local mental health clinicians in postdisaster contexts while addressing the special needs that they may have to process their own trauma.

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Vicarious resilience: Complexities and variations.

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Nurse–Patient Connectedness and Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life: Experiences of Volunteering at a Pediatric Oncology Camp

Nurse–Patient Connectedness and Nurses’ Professional Quality of Life: Experiences of Volunteering at a Pediatric Oncology Camp

Protective Factors in Resilient Volunteers Facing Compassion Fatigue

Hurtful Gifts? Trauma and Growth Transmission Among Local Clinicians in Postearthquake Haiti

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