Haiti trauma tool works in Newtown - Connecticut

Chris Engel 4/29/134:00 PM

"A tool designed to help pastors deal with trauma following the 2010 Haiti earthquakes is translating well into other cultures, said a Mercer University professor who used the storytelling-based exercise April 26 with clergy in the Newtown, Mass., area.

"David Lane, a professor in Mercer’s graduate-level counseling program based at the school’s Atlanta campus, said the chaplains, counselors and clergy who attended Friday’s Leading Congregations through Crisis conference in Wilton, Conn., have experienced “secondary trauma” – known in layman’s terms as compassion fatigue – brought on by the Newtown school shooting that occurred Dec. 14 of last year...."

http://www.abpnews.com/ministry/organizations/item/8450-haiti-trauma-tool-works-in-newtown

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