IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v19y2022i17p11057-d906155.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Trauma-Informed Care: A Transcendental Phenomenology of the Experiences of International Faculty during the Delta and Omicron Variant Outbreaks in East China

Author

Listed:
  • Benjamin H. Nam

    (School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201613, China)

  • Alexander S. English

    (Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)

Abstract

This transcendental phenomenological study explored psychologically traumatic incidents and risk factors among international faculty members (IFMs) who experienced long-term lockdowns during the Delta and Omicron outbreak periods in East China. Based on empirical voices from 18 IFMs in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing, this study used trauma-informed care as its primary theoretical lens to examine potential traumatic incidents and risk factors. Findings showed that participants had neuroses about the omen of lockdowns and felt exhausted and frustrated about persistent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. They also experienced or witnessed burnout and dropout due to leisure constraints. Most notably, participants had concerns about families and friends during the series of lockdowns, entailing extreme stress due to separation, illness, loss, and grief. Overall, this study provides practical implications for counseling practices about social and cultural considerations and systemic barriers that impact clients’ well-being.

Suggested Citation

  • Benjamin H. Nam & Alexander S. English, 2022. "Trauma-Informed Care: A Transcendental Phenomenology of the Experiences of International Faculty during the Delta and Omicron Variant Outbreaks in East China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:17:p:11057-:d:906155
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/17/11057/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/17/11057/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Benjamin H. Nam & Hans-Jörg Luitgar Weber & Yuanyuan Liu & Alexander Scott English, 2022. "The ‘Myth of Zero-COVID’ Nation: A Digital Ethnography of Expats’ Survival Amid Shanghai Lockdown during the Omicron Variant Outbreak," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(15), pages 1-16, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yingling Fan & Scott Orford & Philip Hubbard, 2023. "Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2: Infrastructures, urban governance and civil society," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(9), pages 1535-1547, July.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Yingling Fan & Scott Orford & Philip Hubbard, 2023. "Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2: Infrastructures, urban governance and civil society," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(9), pages 1535-1547, July.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:17:p:11057-:d:906155. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.