Please feel free to use them for yourself or for handouts, or in research. We would be delighted to hear about your experiences. If you are doing research data collection, please consider sharing your data with us so that we can add to the archives we maintain for psychometric purposes. You can find more information about them in my book Measurement of Stress, Trauma and Adaptation listed below. Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD Research Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 1997 .
Reporters cry alone after the story is filed .
From the American Psychological Association Monitor, by Nathan Seppa. In plane crashes and other tragedies, survivors and rescue workers get lots of psychological attention. This is a poster we presented on Secondary Traumatic Stress at the 1997 Annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. This project examined the impact of compassion Fatigue on the quality of care as an emerging issue for mental health care policy reform. A key questions in the study was whether on not compassion fatigue should be a concern for mental health policy.