Vicarious traumatization and transition house workers in remote, northern British Columbia communities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Transition house support workers provide a valuable service to women and children who are trying to escape situations of violence and abuse. This research explores the issue of vicarious traumatization as it affects the support workers in a remote, northern area of British Columbia, Canada. The workers’ knowledge of vicarious traumatization was found to be somewhat limited and training and support were minimal. Debriefing, better training, and more education are needed to address this issue. Transition houses are emergency shelters that provide a safe place for women and children escaping violence and abuse. The first transition houses in Canada were opened in 1973 and by 2004 there were 543 shelters in operation (Tutty, 2006). Transition house support workers deliver services to trauma survivors and in doing so bear witness to the brutality endured by women and children. It is through this work that transition house support workers become susceptible to vicarious traumatization. It is important to understand what transition house workers know about vicarious traumatization and the level of support and training they receive in order to recognize and deal with vicarious traumatization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".