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Resilience of Professional Counselors Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Author(s) -
Lambert Simone F.,
Lawson Gerard
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2013.00094.x
Subject(s) - compassion fatigue , burnout , posttraumatic growth , psychological resilience , psychology , clinical psychology , volunteer , scale (ratio) , compassion , psychiatry , psychotherapist , agronomy , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law , biology
Professional counselors who provided services to those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita completed the K6+ (screen for severe mental illness), the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, and the Professional Quality of Life Scale. Results indicated that participants who survived the hurricanes had higher levels of posttraumatic growth than participants who served as volunteers. Both volunteer and survivor‐volunteer participants were susceptible to compassion fatigue. To further resiliency, self‐care strategies were found to minimize burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization.