NAT: Mental Health (Managing Vicarious Trauma)

Many translators and interpreters are exposed to stressful and traumatic information in the course of their everyday work. Repeated exposure to stressful or traumatic information can often negatively impact an individual's emotional well-being leading to symptoms of stress, fatigue, and low mood.

This phenomenon is known as Vicarious Trauma and is estimated to affect nearly four out of five interpreters in Australia. In this talk, Avalon Tissue will assist individuals to recognize symptoms of Vicarious Trauma, understand how Vicarious Trauma is different from burn-out, and provide practical strategies to manage and prevent Vicarious Trauma in the workplace.

Presenter

Avalon Tissue is a Clinical Psychologist who specialises in working with individuals from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds. Avalon is the Clinical Lead at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program at the University of New South Wales, a free counselling program which helps refugee and asylum-seekers recover from symptoms of stress related to traumatic experiences. She has experience training and working collaboratively with translators and interpreters to assist individuals with mental health difficulties including stress and complex trauma. Avalon also works with children and their families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds within a community health setting.

Avalon holds a Masters of Clinical Psychology from the University of Sydney.

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