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Fascinating!  We didn't collect demographic data on our small sample since it would have been identifiable, but typically those who attend represent a broad array of helping professionals, so it might be difficult to tease out the impact.  Anecdotally, in social work (I'm a social work professor), many of our BSW and MSW students "find" social work based on their own trauma experiences, and want to make a positive difference for someone else.  A study by Gilin & Kauffman (2015), Strategies for Teaching About Trauma to Graduate Social Work Students, found that 80% of the students who participated in their study reported at least one ACE and 27.3% reported 4 or more.  These findings support what I've observed anecdotally.  The researchers then discuss various teaching strategies to reduce vicarious trauma given the findings.  I think that this is just one of the many areas that is important to explore among our helping professionals and then providing support as needed.  Thanks too, for the observation about the more common presentation of Wave I and Wave II sample data in the Felitti study--I'll definitely note and plan to use those data!

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