The Imprint

‘Helping the Helpers’: How a Mental Health Worker Guides Frontline Child Abuse Investigators Through Trauma

A Q+A with Heidi Rimstad, who helps frontline child abuse investigators cope with stress and vicarious trauma.
Post Courier

Supporting the frontline of PNG’s response to family and sexual violence

Frontline workers across Papua New Guinea continue to play a critical role in responding to family and sexual violence, often ...
Psychology Today

Trauma Workers At Risk for Compassion Fatigue

The expectation of unending compassion for others is unrealistic. For trauma workers, hearing devastating stories can take its toll. This can be seen in detrimental effects to physical and emotional ...
Nature

How scientists exposed to other people’s trauma find support

After interviewing health-care workers who had responded to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York City, Erin Smith, a disaster-response researcher at Edith Cowan University in Perth, ...
Forbes

The Empathy Gap: Critics Say It’s Hard To Work Amid National Trauma

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Critics say it's hard for some employees to shake the trauma they carry to work from recent ...