Module 5 – Traumatic impact on Human Rights Defenders and Burn-out Prevention

Traumatic impact on Human Rights Defenders and Burn-out Prevention

Your work as a Human Rights Defender can be stressful. Long hours of work, travel, and all your efforts to gather information about human rights violations can become grueling work.  Prolonged periods of stress can lead to burnout and trauma. Learn how to manage workloads, manage stress, and protect your wellbeing.

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  Traumatic impact on Human Rights Defenders and Burn-out Prevention

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  1. When working with people that have suffered human rights violations, we:

  A. Treat all of it the same way

  B. React to certain parts of their work differently and therefore are affected differently

  C. Must be strong and never have difficulties when dealing with these situations

  Correct! Wrong!

  2. The organizational stress is a type of stress related to:

  A. The amount of workload, the ways of dealing with the tasks and the hierarchy

  B. Lack of concrete mandate and definition of work roles, responsibilities and objectives

  C. Both of above-mentioned

  Correct! Wrong!

  3. Vicarious trauma happens when …

  A. The survivor’s experience is too difficult to understand

  B. The survivor’s experience is too difficult to believe or has no sense

  C.The survivor’s experience affects us and creates a trauma response

  Correct! Wrong!

  4. Countertransference is defined as …

  A. The transfer of your own feelings and experiences to the other person

  B. when the experience of the other person exposes a painful part of your own history, and it affects you

  C. The difficulty to feel empathy about the other person’s experience

  Correct! Wrong!

  5. Human rights organisations working with victims of human rights violations or in complex contexts need to always …

  A. Asses the sources and level of stress of all the members of the organization

  B. Plan and organize different strategies to cope with the stress

  C. Both of above-mentioned

  Correct! Wrong!