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Working with young people and vicarious trauma

mental health and wellbeing, trauma-informed practice

Working, either directly or indirectly, with young people who have at some point in their life journey have experienced trauma and injustice is complex. It is complex because those we want to help those who have experienced injustice. It is complex because of the process of empathetic and relational engagement. It is complex because it can be rewarding, emotionally exhausting, raise existential distress and we can even develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress in response to a process of vicarious traumatisation. This webinar by Orygen Youth health focuses on vicarious trauma, self care and workplace support.

Sixty years of child-to-parent abuse research

adolescent violence

This review, seeking to integrate 60 years of diffuse research on AVITH, is structured according to Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) nested ecological model of development.

Early warning signs of mental ill-health in young people

mental health and wellbeing

Resource by Orygen Youth Health. Identifying early warning signs of mental ill-health in young people assists with earlier intervention resulting in the potential reduction of the severity and duration of ill-health.

Case studies: Women’s Stories of Courage of Hope

adolescent violence, parenting

Six women tell their stories of finding ways to deal with adolescent violence with courage and hope.

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