Self assessment around self-care and vicarious trauma

This self-assessment form is a chance for you to reflect on how confident or comfortable you feel when looking at the potential impact of working with severely traumatised clients, including survivors of torture.

This survey will help us to ensure our 'Self Care' training programme for immigration law practitioners so it is as useful as possible for your working context.

Your responses will be anonymised (there is nothing to identify who you are).

Please think of how you feel currently and please be honest with yourself. 

(Please note that 'vicarious trauma' will be abbreviated to VT throughout this survey.)

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* 1. Please tell us your position

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* 2. Please tell us how many years have you been practicing law (providing legal advise)

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* 3. Over what time period (how many years) have you worked with asylum seekers and refugees including survivors?

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* 4. How confident do you feel in your ability to recognise when the work you do with severely traumatised clients is negatively impacting on you and/or your colleagues?

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* 5. Describe the top 3 things that you find most challenging about your work.

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* 6. Please tick the box that you think best describes your feelings today.

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I am confident that I can recognise when my work with severely traumatised clients is negatively impacting on me
I am confident that I can recognise when my work with severely traumatised clients is negatively impacting on my colleagues
I am confident in my awareness of the various factors that can contribute to people being negatively impacted when working with severely traumatised clients and/or related materials in the workplace
I am confident in my awareness of the wider causes of VT (outside of the workplace)
I am aware of practical methods for limiting and dealing with VT in the workplace
I am confident in implementing strategies for dealing with the physical, psychological and social aspects of VT

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* 7. Notes or comments on any of the above statements / table

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* 8. Reflecting on your working context, what factors do you think might lead to vicarious trauma?

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* 9. What do you think might be some of the signs of vicarious trauma?

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* 10. Do you recognise any ways in which you may have been impacted by working with severely traumatised clients?

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* 11. What would you find beneficial in the workplace to reduce the risk of vicarious trauma?

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* 12. Do you agree that Freedom from Torture may share the results of this questionnaire with ILPA and Claiming Space to use as part of its review and assessment process for training and capacity building purposes?

This would be done anonymously via a collated report. No individual responses, names or identifying information would be shared.

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* 13. Do you agree that Freedom from Torture may share the results of this questionnaire with law firm partners and senior managers? This would allow us to initiate stage 2 of the 'Improving welfare in the workplace' process by advising on positive changes to policies and necessary implementations for improved organizational wellbeing.

This would be done anonymously via a collated report. No individual responses, names or identifying information would be shared.

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