Trauma and crisis intervention.

The subject is social work in the area of trauma and crisis intervention.

Personal Assessment Paper:

In 5-6 pages: Identify and discuss personal attitudes, values, behaviors, and experiences that can impede or enhance your ability to do crisis work. Your paper must reflect accurate knowledge of effective crisis worker characteristics and the dynamics of burnout, vicarious traumatization, and compassion fatigue. You will use the course readings, and approximately five (5) professional journal articles dealing with counselor burnout, vicarious traumatization, or compassion fatigue. Paper must include your name, date, headings, and be double-spaced in 12pt Arial font, with APA 7th Edition citations, and APA reference page.

In preparing to write your paper, consider the following (you do not need to reply to each):
What personal qualities or characteristics might enhance your ability to be an effective crisis worker? What personal qualities or characteristics might impede your ability to be an effective crisis worker? How might crisis experiences in your own life increase the potential for countertransference when working with clients who have experienced similar forms of trauma and crisis?
What steps might you take to lessen the potential for and therefore manage countertransference in these situations?
What attitudes, values, behaviors, and experiences might contribute to your risk for vicarious traumatization or compassion fatigue?
What feelings, attitudes, motives, and/or expectations might increase your risk for burnout?
Finally, what is one thing you do for self-care that can help you care for individuals who have experienced a crisis/trauma?