This 1996 workbook provides specific tools, guidelines, and activities for those who are impacted by vicarious traumatization (a transformation that occurs in the human body, causing someone else’s trauma that you did not experience to impact you). Vicarious traumatization occurs when you help or work with people who have been traumatized, either in your profession or your personal life, and those interactions cause you pain. Though the impact of this kind of trauma is inescapable, this workbook provides clear strategies for self-care, enabling readers to address and transform their own vicarious trauma.

The book is available for purchase from W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. here.

Saakvitne, Karen W. and Laurie Anne Pearlman, Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996.