TY - JOUR
T1 - Shared Traumatic Reality and Boundary Theory
T2 - How Mental Health Professionals Cope With the Home/Work Conflict During Continuous Security Threats
AU - Dekel, Rachel
AU - Nuttman-Shwartz, Orit
AU - Lavi, Tamar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2016/4/2
Y1 - 2016/4/2
N2 - In a shared traumatic reality, mental health professionals and their clients are exposed to the same communal disaster. Both living and working in the same high-stress community can create a conflict between the professional's work and his or her private life. The author analyzed three focus groups consisting of 30 mental health professionals who worked with traumatized populations in a missile-stricken area in southern Israel. The professionals’ experience was explored through the lens of boundary theory by examining the ways in which they created and maintained boundaries between the different domains of their lives. Findings demonstrated that these professionals presented a continuum of segmentation and integration of the domains as suggested by boundary theory, when both living and working in a highly stressed environment. The discussion deals with possible costs and benefits of the boundary theory continuum.
AB - In a shared traumatic reality, mental health professionals and their clients are exposed to the same communal disaster. Both living and working in the same high-stress community can create a conflict between the professional's work and his or her private life. The author analyzed three focus groups consisting of 30 mental health professionals who worked with traumatized populations in a missile-stricken area in southern Israel. The professionals’ experience was explored through the lens of boundary theory by examining the ways in which they created and maintained boundaries between the different domains of their lives. Findings demonstrated that these professionals presented a continuum of segmentation and integration of the domains as suggested by boundary theory, when both living and working in a highly stressed environment. The discussion deals with possible costs and benefits of the boundary theory continuum.
KW - Shared traumatic reality
KW - boundary theory
KW - mental health professional
KW - trauma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960105751&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15332691.2015.1068251
DO - 10.1080/15332691.2015.1068251
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SN - 1533-2691
VL - 15
SP - 121
EP - 134
JO - Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy
JF - Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy
IS - 2
ER -