Essays about: "Vicarious Trauma"

Found 3 essays containing the words Vicarious Trauma.

1. 1. When the children cry : Social workers experiences when exposed to traumatic narratives shared by unaccompanied refugee children

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi

   Author : Annie Flodström; [2020]
   Keywords : Social services; social workers; unaccompanied refugee children; interactions; countertransference; vicarious trauma; trauma; Sweden;

   Abstract : My aim was to explore the experiences of social workers working with unaccompanied refugee children when hearing traumatic narratives shared by the children. This is a qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews with three social workers with experience of working with these children in the social services in Sweden. READ MORE

3. 2. To M̶o̶u̶r̶n̶ Try To Live : Personal trauma in 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close', and its pedagogical implications in the Swedish EFL classroom. 

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Frank Smit; [2019]
   Keywords : Concept of Loss; Mourning; Vicarious Trauma; Personal Trauma; Foer; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; The EFL Classroom; Freud.;

   Abstract : This essay examines Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close through an application of a theoretical framework of trauma studies, aiming to showcase the elements of personal trauma displayed in the novel. Moreover, it wishes to discern the mental and physical sufferings and working through of the trauma through a thematic analysis aimed at the concepts of loss, vicarious trauma and isolation. READ MORE

4. 3. Narrating Trauma in the Middle East – A New Psychological Landscape?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Ieanah Veronica Svensson; [2015]
   Keywords : film; cinema; Middle East; Middle Eastern; trauma; trauma culture; trauma film; Israel; Israeli Lebanon; Lebanese; Palestine; Palestinian; Syria; Syrian; perpetrator cinema; myth; ethics; dominant discourse; war; conflict; anti-war; character engagement; emotional response; vicarious trauma; empathy; sympathy; allegiance; moral; semiotics; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This is a study of contemporary feature films and short films presenting personal and collective traumas originating in Levantine Middle Eastern conflicts – in Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. Just after the millennium there were significant shifts in these societies and consequently in their cinemas. READ MORE