Storydesign is out! https://paper.li/gholubowicz/sortir-du-cadre-think-wider?edition_id=2afac220-aeaf-11ed-967d-fa163e65ae25 #storytelling #transmedia & #interactivity #storydesign With @CJR@twitter.activitypub.actor @nextinpact @AntonioCasilli #vicarioustrauma #ptsd

Great article on range & commonality of contexts where vicarious trauma emerges.
Carers, healthcare workers, social workers, content moderators, lawyers: a useful read for you...

#trauma #vicarioustrauma #secondarytrauma #mentalhealth #lawyers

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/16/whats-it-like-when-your-job-involves-wading-through-others-suffering-i-was-left-weeping-and-hopeless

What’s it like when your job involves wading through others’ suffering? I was left weeping and hopeless
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/16/whats-it-like-when-your-job-involves-wading-through-others-suffering-i-was-left-weeping-and-hopeless?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#VicariousTrauma

Work can hurt, especially if we support online groups or communities. When we bring people together, we have to handle other people's anger, distress, or more.

This thoughtful article helps explain the impact of managing online groups and communities and the health and wellbeing risks in handling toxic and harmful content and behaviour

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/16/whats-it-like-when-your-job-involves-wading-through-others-suffering-i-was-left-weeping-and-hopeless

#cmgr #communitymanagement #communitymanagers #moderation #ugc #vicarioustrauma #burnoutprevention

With some of the images coming out of Ukraine, this is appropriate right now. It's a 3-minute talk on how journalists (and others) can avoid taking trauma from viewing photos of horrible things.

#trauma #VicariousTrauma #PTSD #mentalhygiene

https://youtu.be/F2WNwZ89rNk

Is this the room for the Bi-curious Trauma Training? No dear, that's sophomore year of college.

#VicariousTrauma #training #OverheardAtWork

Sound advice on mitigating the vicarious trauma that can come with open-source research on awful stuff.

The piece focuses on war and violence, but this applies to work on contentious politics, too.

A few ways this regularly arises in my work on CCC:

* Watching clips of police violence
* Watching clips from vigils (for me, esp. ones with grieving parents)
* Reading or watching hate screeds

#protest #OpenSourceResearch #VicariousTrauma

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/11/23/how-to-maintain-mental-hygiene-as-an-open-source-researcher/

Tomorrow!

Peer-to-peer debriefing session for linguists experiencing vicarious trauma

Organised by the ITI's Interpreters' Development Network - and free

#1nt #VicariousTrauma #ITI #InterpretersDevelopmentNetwork

@interpreters

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-to-peer-debriefing-session-for-linguists-experiencing-vicarious-trauma-tickets-386783879997

Tomorrow!

Peer-to-peer debriefing session for linguists experiencing vicarious trauma

Organised by the ITI's Interpreters' Development Network - and free

#1nt #VicariousTrauma #ITI #InterpretersDevelopmentNetwork

@interpreters

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-to-peer-debriefing-session-for-linguists-experiencing-vicarious-trauma-tickets-386783879997

This was in the works for long. Putting it out for everyone to read today. We hope to be able to do more on this topic someday. #Mentalhealth #VicariousTrauma #Activism

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6366912