Vicarious Trauma Illustrated

by Rebecca Bloom

72 pages

A graphic medicine book looking at how Psychoanalytic, Jungian, Feminist, Narrative, and Mindfulness theory address Vicarious Trauma. Over 50, wet on wet watercolor images fill this full color book with a deep experience of how the body and mind react and process our own traumas and those of others.

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About the Book
A graphic medicine book looking at how Psychoanalytic, Jungian, Feminist, Narrative, and Mindfulness theory address Vicarious Trauma. Each of these theoretical concepts has something to offer in how to process difficult experiences. Are you feeling unable to integrate what you hear from your clients? It keeps you up at night? You are isolating from your friends and family because you are so exhausted? You have become more spiritual or agnostic trying to make sense of the pain and suffering you have heard about? All of these are common responses of Vicarious Trauma. Your told by your boss to remember “Self Care” but nothing seems to bring you back to the self you were before you started direct services work. At the end of each section, there is a directive to help you put theory into practice and take a deeper look at why these stories are impacting you. Drawing on my eight years as an Internship Supervisor for a Masters in Counseling, everything in this book has been tested and reworked with folks working with our most vulnerable populations. I would see students turn from bright-eyed new clinicians to dragging themselves to their placement sites and class feeling utterly hopeless about the system, their clients ability to “get better” and who they were as therapists. I had the term Vicarious Trauma, even felt it myself, seen it in my coworkers, but something there was something different watching it in weekly three hour chunks, one a face of a student paying a lot of money to train to be a therapist. I began researching protocols, of which there are many and no one has heard of them, and creating my own.
Reviews
Vicarious Trauma Illustrated is a must read for anyone interested in understanding vicarious and secondary trauma. The book is beautiful and illustrative. Bloom’s images and hand written text move the reader through the emotional journey of this book in an embodied way. This is a book readers will feel as much as read. --Cristien Storm, LMHC and author of “Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries and Inspiring Social Change” - Cristien Storm--Cristien Storm, LMHC and author of “Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries and Inspiring Social Change” With candor and humility, Rebecca Bloom provided an accessible introductory toolkit for therapists and and healing workers to stay present in their clients' struggles without internalizing the pain.By including her own developing process as a therapist, feminist, and teacher, she maps a personal journey through art and life, one that can be applied to a broad range of social justice work. Rather than a distant guidebook, Vicarious Trauma Illustrated offers an intimate journey toward a grounded engagement with self and society. - Mattilda Bernstein Syamore, autor of Sketchtasy
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About the Author

I received my training in clinical art therapy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, graduating with a Masters Degree in Art Therapy and Creativity Development. I am a Board Certified Art Therapist and Washington State Licensed Mental Health Counselor.

Over the last twenty years, I have provided counseling, training, and consulting services in the areas of youth and family services as well as adults struggling with addiction and mental health issues.