Items About You

1.       I am happy.

2.       I find my life satisfying.

3.       I have beliefs that sustain me.

4.       I feel estranged from others.

5.       I find that I learn new things from those I care for.

6.       I force myself to avoid certain thoughts or feelings that remind me of a frightening experience.

7.       I find myself avoiding certain activities or situations because they remind me of a frightening experience.

8.       I have gaps in my memory about frightening events.

9.       I feel connected to others.

10.    I feel calm.

11.    I believe that I have a good balance between my work and my free time.

12.    I have difficulty falling or staying asleep.

13.    I have outburst of anger or irritability with little provocation

14.    I am the person I always wanted to be.

15.    I startle easily.

16.    While working with a victim, I thought about violence against the perpetrator.

17.    I am a sensitive person.

18.    I have flashbacks connected to those I help.

19.    I have good peer support when I need to work through a highly stressful experience.

20.    I have had first-hand experience with traumatic events in my adult life.

21.    I have had first-hand experience with traumatic events in my childhood.

22.    I think that I need to “work through” a traumatic experience in my life.

23.    I think that I need more close friends.

24.    I think that there is no one to talk with about highly stressful experiences.

25.    I have concluded that I work too hard for my own good.

26.    Working with those I help brings me a great deal of satisfaction.

27.    I feel invigorated after working with those I help.

28.    I am frightened of things a person I helped has said or done to me.

29.    I experience troubling dreams similar to those I help.

30.    I have happy thoughts about those I help and how I could help them.

31.    I have experienced intrusive thoughts of times with especially difficult people I helped.

32.    I have suddenly and involuntarily recalled a frightening experience while working with a person I helped.

33.    I am pre-occupied with more than one person I help.

34.    I am losing sleep over a person I help's traumatic experiences.

35.    I have joyful feelings about how I can help the victims I work with.

36.    I think that I might have been “infected” by the traumatic stress of those I help.

37.    I think that I might be positively “inoculated” by the traumatic stress of those I help.

38.    I remind myself to be less concerned about the well being of those I help.

39.    I have felt trapped by my work as a helper.

40.    I have a sense of hopelessness associated with working with those I help.

41.    I have felt “on edge” about various things and I attribute this to working with certain people I help.

42.    I wish that I could avoid working with some people I help.

43.    Some people I help are particularly enjoyable to work with.

44.    I have been in danger working with people I help.

45.    I feel that some people I help dislike me personally.

Items About Being a Helper and Your Helping Environment

46.    I like my work as a helper.

47.    I feel like I have the tools and resources that I need to do my work as a helper.

48.    I have felt weak, tired, run down as a result of my work as helper.

49.    I have felt depressed as a result of my work as a helper.

50.    I have thoughts that I am a “success” as a helper.

51.    I am unsuccessful at separating helping from personal life.

52.    I enjoy my co-workers.

53.    I depend on my co-workers to help me when I need it.

54.    My co-workers can depend on me for help when they need it.

55.    I trust my co-workers.

56.    I feel little compassion toward most of my co-workers

57.    I am pleased with how I am able to keep up with helping technology.

58.    I feel I am working more for the money/prestige than for personal fulfillment.

59.    Although I have to do paperwork that I don’t like, I still have time to work with those I help.

60.    I find it difficult separating my personal life from my helper life.

61.    I am pleased with how I am able to keep up with helping techniques and protocols.

62.    I have a sense of worthlessness/disillusionment/resentment associated with my role as a helper.

63.    I have thoughts that I am a “failure” as a helper.

64.    I have thoughts that I am not succeeding at achieving my life goals.

65.    I have to deal with bureaucratic, unimportant tasks in my work as a helper.

66.    I plan to be a helper for a long time.