Measures of Traumatic Stress & Secondary Traumatic Stress
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This page contains several tests of Traumatic Stress & Secondary Traumatic Stress. These tests may be printed and used for clinical and research purposes. Click here for an introductory One Page Handout on Secondary and Vicarious Trauma, a reprint from the Spring 2002, Register Report: A Publication of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
Many people ask about the measures that we use for assessing quality of life and traumatic stress symptoms. We believe that even if people experience highly stressful events, they may have positive experiences also. Because of that, we try very hard to make sure to understand the balance between personal resources (social support, belief systems, financial and community resources) and the stressful experiences a person has had. Below are several measures we used. You can find more information about them in my book Measurement of Stress, Trauma and Adaptation listed below.
One area of particular interest is Secondary Traumatic Stress, or the effect of working with survivors of traumatic stress. The five measures with the * are the most popular measures we use for Secondary Traumatic Stress. These measures draw from three major works. One is by Laurie Pearlman, Ph.D. Kay Saakvitne, Ph.D. and colleagues who are authors of the book Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy with Incest Survivors. The second is Charles Figley's, Ph.D. book Compassion Fatigue: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in Those Who Treat The Traumatized. The third book is by B. Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., the editor of these web pages, and is called Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers Educators, 2nd Edition. Joseph M. Rudolph, M.A. and Edward M. Varra, M.S. are frequent collaborators.