Recovery Case Studies

This step towards the process of witness recovery led to a variety of case studies and reports being conducted to evaluate the effects on children when they become exposed to parental violence or death. This leads to the children having a challenging time recovery since it is such a personal trauma, even if experienced indirectly. There are studies that indicate that after experiencing such an event, the children have a difficult time adjusting and coping with the current problem and also the issues, whether related or non-related, that occur after. These children then go to therapists who are trying to come up with ways to better help the children. Group counselling sessions were introduced to check if they had any impact on how the children
As stated by Thieleman K and Cacciatore J, professionals who work with traumatized victims are more likely to encounter “compassion fatigue”, “burnout”, and “secondary trauma”. However, studies have proven that mindfulness has helped protect professionals against these unfortunate consequences, improve compassion satisfaction for both the professionals and clients, and function as an effective self-care strategy (Witness to suffering: mindfulness and compassion fatigue among traumatic bereavement volunteers and professionals). By introducing mindfulness into the healing process of distressed individuals, it creates a calm environment which benefits the professionals by allowing them not to get emotionally and mentally drained, ultimately interfering with the amount of positive support and rehabilitation that can be provided. This also implies benefits to the clients because they are able to work proficiently on recovering from their agonizing incident with the feeling of being judged or their issues being