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Lived Experiences Of Crisis Counselors With Repeat Exposure To Mental Health Crises, Emily Genever
Lived Experiences Of Crisis Counselors With Repeat Exposure To Mental Health Crises, Emily Genever
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Due to the potentially traumatic content that crisis counselors face, members of the counselor education community must understand the psychological implications of repeated exposure to mental health crises to fulfill their responsibility of properly training, supervising, and supporting crisis counselors. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of crisis counselors who had worked full-time with a variety of mental health emergencies. A hermeneutic design and constructivist self-development theoretical lens allowed for the illumination of the perceived positive and negative consequences of crisis work. Purposive sampling strategies were employed to recruit seven crisis counselors for …