Prevention of secondary trauma in probation

To whom it may concern

We contacting you to be on behalf of probation services in İstanbul, Turkey.

Probation services are working with offenders for treatment and rehabilitation. As probation services professionals, we work to prevent offenders from re-offending. For this mission a group of specialists are working together: sociologists, psychologists, social service specialists and teachers. This spacialists are conduct individual interviews and group studies with people involved in crime.

Probation specialists are faced with many problems while performing these rehabilitation works (individual interviews and group studies). When we observe these studies, it is seen that probation specialists are exposed to a certain trauma due to the problems and mental states of the convicts. This trauma experienced by employees is called secondary trauma in the psychology literature.

After this secondary trauma experienced, many problems arise in employees: mental and physical fatigue, a sense of professional inadequacy, decreased concentration and difficulty in making decisions, negative thoughts and images in the brain... In order to prevent all these problems, we want to carry out a project to prevent the trauma experienced by the employees due to the convicts.

And i wonder can you help us this project? There is any program about this subject in your country?
Thank you for your time and help already.