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The Development and Validation of the Secondary Trauma in Resident Assistants Scale
Discussion Questions
1. The Development and Validation of the Secondary Trauma in Resident Assistants Scale
2. The author states that "unfortunately, administrators seem to have given little thought to
the fact that RAs are students themselves, and RA peer counseling and first response work
has potentially negative psychological impacts on them." Do you agree with this statement?
Why/why not?
3. Do you think the findings would be any different if the sample were predominately or
exclusively male students? Students of color? RAs with more than one year of experience?
4. What other student roles/positions on a typical campus might be affected by secondary
trauma resulting from working with others?
5. As noted by the author, RAs as frontline responders have been greatly impacted by the
increase in serious psychological challenges associated with the college population they
serve. Discuss contemporary training ideas that you have utilized to prepare RAs for the
crisis management aspect of their work.
6. The author identifies RAs as crisis "first-responders." Do you agree with this terminology,
and how might use of this comparison influence perceptions of RAs' feelings towards the
degree of responsibility associated with this task?
7. The author notes that the RA role has become more stressful as mental health issues have
become more pronounced in the college setting. Through a student development lens,
discuss your thoughts on RAs' capacity to effectively respond to psychological trauma. And
associated with this, in your opinion, should RAs be tasked with responding to incidents
involving psychological trauma, or should such response be delegated to professional
housing/residence life staff?
8. This article describes the validation of an instrument that can measure symptoms
associated with secondary traumatic stress in RAs. Given the discussion of its limitations,
would you make the decision to use this tool with student staff? Why/why not?
Discussion questions developed by Diane "Daisy" Waryold, Appalachian State University,
and Pam Schreiber, University of Washington.
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