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- Title
- Vicarious trauma : the impact on solicitors of exposure to traumatic material
- Related
- Traumatology, Vol. 14, Issue 1, p.106-118
- DOI
- 10.1177/1534765607309961
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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110300 Clinical Sciences
111700 Public Health and Health Services
170100 Psychology
- Author/Creator
- Vrklevski, Lila Peta
- Author/Creator
- Franklin, John
- Description
- This study explored vicarious trauma in the legal profession. A random sample of male and female criminal law (n = 50) and noncriminal law (n = 50) solicitors completed a research pack containing the following questionnaires: a demographic questionnaire; Vicarious Trauma Scale; Satisfaction With Work Scale; Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales; Impact of Event Scale—Revised; and Trauma and Attachment Belief Scale. Criminal lawyers reported significantly higher levels of subjective distress and vicarious trauma, depression, stress, and cognitive changes in relation to self-safety, other safety, and other intimacy. No significant differences were found between the two groups on measures of satisfaction with work or coping strategies in relation to work-related distress. Multiple trauma history was associated with higher scores on measures of symptomatic distress.
- Description
- 13 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 110300 Clinical Sciences
- Subject Keyword
- 111700 Public Health and Health Services
- Subject Keyword
- 170100 Psychology
- Subject Keyword
- vicarious trauma
- Subject Keyword
- solicitors
- Subject Keyword
- depression
- Subject Keyword
- anxiety
- Subject Keyword
- stress
- Subject Keyword
- cognitive changes
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/74526
- Identifier
- ISSN:1534-7656
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2008000271
- Language
- eng
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