The Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Violence Against Children, ELEM.
Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University.
Psychol Trauma. 2018 Nov;10(6):698-705. doi: 10.1037/tra0000318. Epub 2017 Oct 9.
This study comprises a first attempt to explain and predict vicarious traumatization among therapists by means of Bowen's Family Systems Theory (Bowen, 1978), especially with reference to the phenomenon "differentiation of self," a central feature of his theory.
A sample of 134 individual and group therapists who work in public and private clinics completed a series of questionnaires that provided data regarding demographic information, differentiation of self, and a belief scale that measures the existence of vicarious trauma.
The findings indicate a strong negative correlation between vicarious traumatization and differentiation of self. In addition, participant age and "being in therapy" were both found to correlate with differentiation of self and vicarious traumatization.
These findings point to the importance of differentiation of self as a resilience factor protecting against vicarious trauma, and have the potential to contribute to the development of tools for efficiently and accurately assessing predisposition toward vicarious traumatization among therapists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究首次尝试通过博恩的家庭系统理论（Bowen，1978）来解释和预测治疗师的替代性创伤，特别是参考其理论的核心特征“自我分化”现象。
在这项研究中，共有 134 名在公立和私立诊所工作的个体治疗师和团体治疗师完成了一系列问卷，这些问卷提供了关于人口统计学信息、自我分化以及衡量替代性创伤存在的信仰量表的数据。
研究结果表明，替代性创伤与自我分化之间存在强烈的负相关。此外，研究还发现，参与者的年龄和“正在接受治疗”与自我分化和替代性创伤都相关。
这些发现表明自我分化作为一种抵御替代性创伤的恢复力因素的重要性，并有潜力为开发工具做出贡献，以有效地、准确地评估治疗师对替代性创伤的易感性。
