Self-care for Mental Healthcare Providers Working with Trauma Survivors

Our lab is preparing to launch a large scale survey examining professional practice, self-care, and well-being among mental health professionals working with victims of trauma. Specific goals of this project include: a) examining the experience of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and work satisfaction among mental health professionals who work with trauma victims; b) examining the self-care behaviors of these mental health professionals; c) examining predictors of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and work satisfaction (e.g., training and support, workplace control, perceived competence, self-care practices, personal trauma history, negative client behaviors, over-involvement with clients); and d) examining predictors of self-care practices (e.g., demographic characteristics, professional experience and background, workplace control and support, self-care “climate” at work).
We are hoping to secure a large, diverse sample of mental health professional and are reaching out to professional associations for assistance in recruiting participants via emails posted on their list-serves.