Professional Interpreters and Vicarious Trauma
An Australian Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4639441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miranda Lai (0000-0002-2038-1547, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author), Susie Costello (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-85 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732320951962 |
| PMID | 32856540 |
| OpenAlex | W3082962753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 42 |
This qualitative study is conducted via focus groups with 47 Australian public service interpreters to investigate their responses to vicarious trauma (VT) in their practice, the influence of culture, and their views on how to maintain mental well-being. While participant interpreters employ various strategies to deal with traumatic client content and other work stressors, cultural inhibitors are found to prevent some from sharing their emotional vulnerability or seeking professional help. They indicated that they want to be treated with respect and as part of the professional team, rather than a machine or a shadow. Professional development is needed to clarify the limits of confidentiality, explain trauma and its vicarious possibilities, and to establish interpreters' professional entitlement to briefing and debriefing. Stakeholders including educators, professional associations, interpreting agencies, and other professions and institutional users of interpreting services should work respectfully and collaboratively to prevent and help interpreters recover from VT
Burnout · Compassion fatigue · Confidentiality · Debriefing · Focus group · Interpreter · Medical education · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Stressor · Clinical Psychology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology
“Sometimes I take the Stories with me and I cannot let them go”
Interpreting is an emotional effort
Examining cultural and linguistic mediation
Seeing it first-hand
Exploring ethical dilemmas encountered by public service interpreters and their effect on job satisfaction
The linguistic and cultural mediators’ experience interpreting doctor-patient communication
The psychophysiology of interpreting emotional language in the audiovisual modality
Asylum seekers’ experiences of healthcare interpretation and translation services in the United Kingdom
‘Just interpret’
Interpreters as Translation Machines
Psychological risks experienced by interpreters in the domestic violence cases
Mentoring interpreters of new and emerging languages for Australian courts and tribunals
Vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress experiences of helping professionals
Outsourcing Transcription
Trauma & Transformation
Focus Group Methodology
Model Minority at Risk
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design
Performing Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research
Action Research
Shielding Yourself From the Perils of Empathy
Application of Demand-Control Theory to Sign Language Interpreting
The Use of Interpreters by Torture Treatment Providers
Exploring Psychological wellbeing in a Sample of Australian Actors
Some guidelines for the phenomenological analysis of interview data
Vietnamese Americans' attitudes toward seeking mental health services
Social Work with Trauma Survivors
The Role of Interpreters in Psychotherapy With Refugees
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth in Psychotherapy
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Vicarious Resilience in Counselors of Child and Youth Victims of Interpersonal Trauma
Interpreters in Cross-Cultural Interviews
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Interpreters
Paramedics' Experiences and Coping Strategies When Encountering Critical Incidents
"I am not a robot!" Interpreters' Views of Their Roles in Health Care Settings
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |