Secondary Traumatic Stress and Health Professional Care to Traumatized Families: a Relational Look

• Main Author: Olga Lidia Casillas-Cárdenas
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Oriente 2016-01-01
• Series: Santiago
• Subjects: estrés traumático secundario; modelo relacional; relación familiar; desgaste profesional; recirculación
• Online Access: http://revistas.uo.edu.cu/index.php/stgo/article/view/685

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">Today, society faces the secondary traumatic stress in work settings, transmitted<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> through the intervention process the social worker, serving human social suffering of<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> the families. This phenomenon is reflected as burnout or contagion of emotions similar<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> to those suffered by subjects treated, characterized by pain, anguish and fear behaviors,<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> and is associated with the cost of care. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> emergence of relationships that emerge in the process of social intervention, as<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> simultaneous complex relationships that keep reciprocity between the life of the social <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">worker, the suffering of the treated subject and labor dynamics, where a frame is shared<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> favoring meanings recirculation secondary traumatic stress. Previous advances show<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> complex triadic relations, which only have interconnection through professional<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"> speaking at a given time and space.<br style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></span></span></span><br style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>