Author: Jeanette I. Lantz Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nonprofit organizations Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Research indicates community violence exposure (CVE) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are significant challenges faced by aid workers. Additionally, national aid workers have been identified as being at greater risk for PTSD than international staff. The relationship between CVE and PTSD has yet to be studied in national aid workers. Also, it is unclear if gender is an important factor in the development of PTSD in national aid workers. These variables were examined in national aid workers in Guatemala. High levels of both CVE and PTSD symptomatology were present and a significant relationship was demonstrated between the two variables. However, gender was not a significant factor in determining who was more likely to experience PTSD symptoms.
Author: Rebecca C. Roberts Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nonprofit organizations Languages : en Pages : 206
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Several researchers have examined the negative psychological effects that clients' traumatic material has on mental health workers and aid workers, including PTSD symptomatology. In the current study, the number of children that an aid worker serves directly, the workers' knowledge of community violence among children served, and the aid worker's personal, direct exposure to community violence were examined. Sixteen percent of workers reported severe levels of PTSD symptoms, and another 26% reported moderate levels of PTSD symptoms. A higher number of children on a worker's caseload was significantly related to worker PTSD, though not in the predicted direction; teachers with fewer students may have closer relationships with them, which may put the workers more at risk for vicarious exposure.
Author: Autumn M. Gallegos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nonprofit organizations Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
Humanitarian aid workers in Guatemala have served communities of people faced with poverty, displacement. and community violence (CV). Aid workers serving in countries with high rates of poverty and crime are exposed to high numbers of traumatic events, often on a daily basis. Exposure to CV has both acute and chronic effects on emotional, physical, and psychological well-being. Surveys were conducted among GuatemaIan national aid workers (N = 135) from four aid organizations to examine CV exposure, health risk behaviors like substance abuse, and positive health behaviors like private religious practices. We hypothosized that there would be a significant positive correlation between CV exposure and substance use. It was also hypothesized that there would be a significant inverse correlation between private religious practices and substance use. Private religious practices were hypothesized to account for significant variance explained in substaiicc use above and beyond gendcr and CV exposure. The results from the study indicated that exposure to CV was positively correlated with substance use among the aid workers. Private religious practices were inversely correlated with substance use when gender and CV exposure were controIled. Finally, private religious practices accounted for the most variance in substance use above and beyond CV exposure and gender. The findings have implications for aid worker care and the role of private religious practice as a protective factor against health risk behaviors.
Author: Sherry Muterspaugh Walling Publisher: ISBN: Category : Community development personnel Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
Violence continues to plague urban communities. The impact of community violence has been widely researched in children and adolescents; however, adult members of urban communities have been largely overlooked. The current study investigated the community violence exposure of 284 urban community development workers across five U.S. cities. Exposure to community violence, history of adverse childhood experiences, and current level of posttraumatic distress were assessed in order to test the hypothesis that adverse childhood experiences moderate the relationship between community violence exposure and posttraumatic distress. The findings indicate that urban workers are exposed to high levels of community violence with 74.9% reporting direct victimization and 99% reporting indirect violence exposure. In addition, 99% of participants reported exposure to adverse childhood experiences, and 14% of the sample met the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A multiple regression analysis confirmed that adverse childhood experiences and community violence exposure were significantly positively related to PTSD. However, the significant interaction between the two predictors was suppressing rather than enhancing, indicating the salience of ACEs over and above community violence in predicting increased PTSD symptoms when both variables are present. Implications for urban work agencies are discussed.
Author: Mark E. Maruish Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351757342 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 635
Book Description
Handbook of Pediatric Psychological Screening and Assessment in Primary Care provides an overview of the principles of screening, monitoring, and measuring of the treatment outcomes of behavioral health disorders in pediatric primary care. The Handbook serves as a guide to the selection of psychometric measures that can be used to screen for and/or assess behavioral health problems of children and adolescents. The Handbook is an invaluable reference to behavioral health clinicans in maximizing potential benefits in efficient assessment and effective treatment of children and adolescents in pediatric primary care settings as well as other health care settings.
Author: David Townes Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107062683 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 509
Book Description
A comprehensive, best practices resource for public health and healthcare practitioners and students interested in humanitarian emergencies.
Author: Gail Theisen-Womersley Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030677125 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populations has led it to become a critical and timely area of inquiry, and this book is an important addition to the literature. It gives an overview of theoretical frameworks related to trauma and migration—exploring factors of risk and resilience, prevalence rates of PTSD, and conceptualisations of trauma beyond psychiatric diagnoses; conceptualises experiences of trauma from a sociocultural perspective (including collective trauma, collective aspirations, and collective resilience); and provides applications for professionals working with displaced populations in complex institutional, legal, and humanitarian settings. It includes case studies based on the author’s own 10-year experience working in emergency contexts with displaced populations in 11 countries across the world. This book presents unique data collected by the author herself, including interviews with survivors of ISIS attacks, with an asylum seeker in Switzerland who set himself alight in protest against asylum procedures, and women from the Murle tribe affected by the conflict in South Sudan who experienced an episode of mass fainting spells. This is an important resource for academics and professionals working in the field of trauma studies and with traumatised groups and individuals.
Author: Jeanette I. Lantz
Author: Rebecca C. Roberts
Author: Autumn M. Gallegos
Author: Sherry Muterspaugh Walling
Author: Claudine C. Hyatt
Author: Mark E. Maruish
Author: David Townes
Author: John Fawcett
Author: Gail Theisen-Womersley
Author: Kenneth E. Miller