Spanish Version:
Description
The repeated exposure of service providers to the distress and suffering of immigrants and other survivors including indirect exposure to graphic details or imagery of survivors’ traumatic experiences, can lead to empathic distress and other trauma and stress related responses. Faculty will delineate the broad array of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes
that accompany these reactions and the neurobiological underpinnings that link them to changes in sleep, mood, concentration, planning and decision-making, memory, motivation and energy levels, and can lead to feelings of numbness, difficulty experiencing positive emotions, cynicism and reckless or self-defeating behaviors. The webinar will include empirically and neurobiologically informed strategies to cultivate resilience among those who serve survivors including increasing capacity for self-regulation and learning skills to strengthen mindful awareness, compassion, and grounding. Combined, these tools can help protect against empathic distress and vicarious trauma and promote wellbeing.
Faculty
- Dr. Marie Carlson marie@cstnet.org
- Hon. Victor Reyes (Ret.) healingjudges@gmail.com
- Leslye E. Orloff, Adjunct Professor info@niwap.org
Self-Care & Resiliency
- NCJFCJ Judicial Wellness Initiative: https://www.ncjfcj.org/judicial-wellness-initiative/
- CoLAP’s 2019 National Judicial Stress and Resilience Survey: The Results are in! 2019 National Conference for Lawyer Assistance Programs, September 25, 2019, Austin, Texas: file:///C:/Users/Marie/Downloads/national-judicial-stress-resilience-survey092319%20(1).pdf
- Self Care for Providers from International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies: ISTSS – Self-Care for Providers
- Vicarious Trauma Toolkit from Office for Victims of Crime (OVC): About the Toolkit | The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit | About the Toolkit | OVC (ojp.gov)
- Reyes, V. (2022). How judges can mitigate vicarious trauma. Your Voice Column, ABA Journal, American Bar Association: https://www.abajournal.com/voice/article/how-judges-can-mitigate-vicarious-trauma
Mindfulness / Meditation Specific Resources
- UCLA Health: Guided Meditations – MARC | UCLA Health
- UCSD Center for Mindfulness: https://cih.ucst.edu/mindfulness
- UMass Memorial Health Center for Mindfulness: https://www.ummhealth.org/center-mindfulness
Contemplative Based Resiliency Training
The Portable Calm: Contemplative Based Trauma and Resiliency Training: The Portable Calm. Eight-week training developed by Gaea Logan & Patricia Tollison, to help cultivate resilience by strengthening the capacity for self-regulation and building protective internal factors essential to the prevention of burnout: https://sutra.co/circle/skkh24/register
Webinars
- Mollica, R.F. and Augusterfer, E.F. (2019). The Science of Empathy, Empathic Reflection and Empathic Regulation in Clinical Care [Webinar]. HealTorture, National Capacity Building Project. https://healtorture.org/webinar/science-empathy-empathic-reflection-and-empathic-regulation-clinical-care
- Higson-Smith, C. and Nicholson Sullivan, M.J. (2016). Healthy organizations: beyond individual self-care [Webinar]. Healtorture, National Capacity Building Project. https://healtorture.org/sites/healtorture.org/files/HealthyOrganizations%20PPT.
Psychoeducation on the nature and causes of panic, anxiety, and the alarm system
Sleep hygiene
- Sleep Hygiene Checklist: https://sdlab.fas.harvard.edu/files/sdlab/files/sleephygienecheckliststriveweekly.pdf
- 10 Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep. National Sleep Foundation: https://www.thensf.org/sleep-tips/
SMART goal planning and action plan
Other Resources
NIWAP Resources
- Advocate’s and Attorney’s Tool for Developing a Survivor’s Story: Trauma Informed Approach
- Trauma Informed – Structured Interview Questionnaires for Immigration Cases (SIQI)(July 12, 2018)
- Trauma-Informed Help For Immigrant Survivors (Updated November 11, 2020)
- Dynamics, Interviewing, Safety Planning, Collaboration and Best Practices
NIWAP Webinars
- (October 30, 2013): “Trauma-Informed Care: Promoting Healing While Strengthening Survivors’ Immigration Cases” (Webinar)
- (March 19, 2014): “Trauma-Informed Care, Part 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Immigration Story Writing Intervention” (Webinar)
- (February 24, 2014): “Helping Survivors in Crisis: Hands On Training for Advocates and Attorneys on Trauma-Informed Work with Immigrant Women Who Are Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault” (Webinar)
References
Arnsten, A. F. (2009). Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and
function. Nature reviews neuroscience, 10(6), 410-422.
Ashar, Y. K., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Dimidjian, S., & Wager, T. D. (2017). Empathic care and distress: predictive brain markers and dissociable brain systems. Neuron, 94(6), 1263-1273.
Baird, K., & Kracen, A. C. (2006). Vicarious traumatization and secondary traumatic stress: A research synthesis. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 19(2), 181-188.
Batson, C. D., Ahmad, N., & Lishner, D. A. (2009). Empathy and altruism. In S. J. Lopez & C. R. Snyder (Eds.), Oxford handbook of positive psychology (pp. 417–426). Oxford University Press.
Figley, C. R. (1995). Compassion fatigue: Toward a new understanding of the costs of caring.
FeldmanHall, Dalgleish, Evans & Mobbs (2015). Empathic concern drives costly altruism, NeuroImage, 105, 347-356, ISSN 1053-8119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.043.
Hegarty, D. & Buchanan, B. ( 2021, November 29). Psychologist Norms for the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL). https://novopsych.com.au/news/psychologist-norms-for-the-professional-quality-of-life-scale-proqol/
Higson-Smith, C. and Nicholson Sullivan, M.J. (2016). Healthy organizations: beyond individual self-care [Webinar]. National Capacity Building Project. https://healtorture.org/sites/healtorture.org/files/HealthyOrganizations%20PPT.
Hofmeyer, A., Kennedy, K., & Taylor, R. (2020). Contesting the term ‘compassion fatigue’: Integrating findings from social neuroscience and self- care research. Collegian, 27(2), 232-237.
Hudnall Stamm, 2009-2012. Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL). www.proqol.org. ( ProQOL). https://novopsych.com.au/news/psychologist-norms-for-the-professional-quality-of-life-scale-proqol/
Joëls, M., & Baram, T. Z. (2009). The neuro-symphony of stress. Nature reviews neuroscience, 10(6), 459-466.
Logan, G. & Tollison, P.K. (2016). Contemplative Based Trauma and Resiliency Training, International Center for Mental Health and Human Rights
McEwen, B. S., & Akil, H. (2020). Revisiting the stress concept: implications for affective disorders. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(1), 12-21.
Mollica, R.F. and Augusterfer, E.F. (2019). The Science of Empathy, Empathic Reflection and Empathic Regulation in Clinical Care [Webinar]. HealTorture, National Capacity Building Project.
Oriel FeldmanHall, Tim Dalgleish, Davy Evans, Dean Mobbs. Empathic concern drives costly altruism, NeuroImage, Volume 105, 2015, Pages 347-356, ISSN 1053-8119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.043.
Pennebaker, J. W., & Chung, C. K. (2011). Expressive writing: Connections to physical and mental health. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of health psychology (pp. 417–437). Oxford University Press.
Singer, T., & Klimecki, O. M. (2014). Empathy and compassion. Current Biology, 24(18), R875-R878.
Sprang, Ford, Kerig & Bride (2018). Defining secondary traumatic stress and developing targeted assessments and interventions: Lessons learned from research and leading experts. Traumatology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/trm0000180
Stamm, B.H. (2010). The Concise ProQOL Manual, 2nd Ed. Pocatello, ID: ProQOL.org.
Telch, M. J. The Nature and Causes of Anxiety and Panic.