Working with victims: psychological assessment of victims and mental health of professionals
The present chapter will have two sections: first part will be focusing on psychological assessment of victims, and second part would be on the guidelines for mental health practitioners who deal with victims. Psychological assessments are important part of investigations and treatment which enables...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Victimology
Year: 2022, Pages: 21-44 |
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| Summary: | The present chapter will have two sections: first part will be focusing on psychological assessment of victims, and second part would be on the guidelines for mental health practitioners who deal with victims. Psychological assessments are important part of investigations and treatment which enables the forensic expert to get leads or evidences of the crime. Assessments based on cognitive functions, personality, and psychopathologies are important components in addition to many instruments guided analysis. The chapter provides the overview of various assessments, effects on victims, and also a horizontal view about the needs and interventions available for the mental health professionals working with victims and trauma clients. The professionals dealing with trauma may also go through secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, counter transference, and occupational burnout, and thus, the second part of the chapter would focus on it. This part describes on the required skills and guidelines to be followed while dealing with victims. There are certain professional and personal characteristics of mental health practitioners that work as assets and protective factors while working with trauma clients and victims. Psychological therapies are required to promote catastrophe survivors’ resiliency and rehabilitation by decreasing psychological crisis. Thus, certain treatment modalities are vital in lending support and assistance to the mental health professionals dealing with trauma clients and victims such as crisis intervention model, psychological first aid, behavioural and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), etc. Seeking effective and appropriate supervision by the mental health professionals also aids in dealing with victims and trauma clients. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 40-44 |
| Physical Description: | Diagramm |
| ISBN: | 9783031129292 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-12930-8_2 |
