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Vicarious Trauma And Implications For Social Work Students, Maria Watts, Meosha Mcafee
Vicarious Trauma And Implications For Social Work Students, Maria Watts, Meosha Mcafee
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Social Work students may experience vicarious trauma at some point in their lifetime. Throughout the course of social work students’ internship experiences and outside employment, the management of trauma exposure is a concern within the field of social work. There are very few studies that have been developed in providing a specific rate of vicarious trauma among social workers and have provided quantitative research on the subject. This research study asks: What intervention strategies do social work students implement to address their vicarious trauma? This research conducted a descriptive study that used a quantitative measure to obtain the findings for …