'If I'm not real, I'm Not Having an Impact': Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care
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Salter, Michael
Conroy, Elizabeth
Burke, Jackie
Dragiewicz, Molly
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There is growing commitment to trauma-informed practice and increased recognition of risks associated with this work. However, the benefits of working with trauma-affected clients are under-studied. Drawing on interviews with sixty-three welfare, health and legal professionals in Australia, we consider the salutogenic dynamics of work with women with experiences of complex trauma. Participants articulated an ethics of care in which professionals ally with clients against abuse and violence as well as transactional neoliberal service models. We identify this approach to trauma work as a form of vicarious resistance that challenges dichotomies of vicarious trauma and resilience.
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The British Journal of Social Work
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© 2022 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version 'If I'm not real, I'm Not Having an Impact': Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care, British Journal of Social Work, 2022 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac054.
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Emergency medicine
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Social Work
complex trauma
neoliberalism
resistance
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Woodlock, D; Salter, M; Conroy, E; Burke, J; Dragiewicz, M, 'If I'm not real, I'm Not Having an Impact': Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care, The British Journal of Social Work, 2022