We need court advocates. We have them at our agency. They perform an invaluable, and God Bless, they are on-call 24 hours a day. They serve the dual role of court advocate and first responders. Thank you for your work. I'm not familiar with your agency, If you would like to post some information, I'd be interested in what your agency does. We do not work with children who have sexually assaulted. We do work with exposed children, mostly through witnessing intimate partner violence. We do, however, work with adult survivors of childhood sexual assault. ACEs apply to then also. I work mostly with children when I'm not the training role. Believe, I know the limits of any type of talk therapy with that population. In my spare time, I'm working with someone out-of-state, on program development for male survivors of sexual assault, That group is more "invisible," though we know there is a significant number of survivors. Here's one such story that has been weighing on my heart lately. I think it demonstrates the consequences of assault don't end with the original incident.
Warning: graphic description of sexual assault
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann...xual-abuse-case.html
I'm not a survivor of sexual assault myself, just a person of conscience who experiences moral injury when I hear of any type of abuse- human or animal. Clinicians who work with survivors, do need to keep some level of composure when working with clients, and if they ever become inured to witnessing these recounts of abuse, they need treatment themselves. That treatment could involve stepping up their own self-care, more consultation, or seeking the services of a therapist (not a colleague) themselves. It's the very definition of compassion fatigue.