Understanding vicarious trauma in Australian foster care

本项目旨在调查澳大利亚寄养家庭中替代性创伤的经历。该项目预计将产生有关替代创伤的前因和缓解措施的新知识，并将通过使用跨学科的方法来了解替代创伤可能发生的具体情况。该项目的预期成果包括通过制定替代性创伤的新衡量标准，生成关于寄养中替代性创伤的国家数据。这应该会带来显著的好处，例如提供一种明确的方法来评估替代性创伤，并通过开发一个移动的应用程序，使澳大利亚的寄养家庭能够监测和报告替代性创伤的经历。

This project aims to investigate experiences of vicarious trauma in Australian foster care. This project expects to generate new knowledge about antecedents and mitigators of vicarious trauma, and will do so by using interdisciplinary approaches to understand the specific contexts in which vicarious trauma may occur. Expected outcomes of this project includes the generation of national data about vicarious trauma in foster care through the development of a new measure of vicarious trauma. This should provide significant benefits, such as providing a clear means to assessing vicarious trauma, and through the development of a mobile app that will enable foster families in Australia to monitor and report experiences of vicarious trauma.