Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP230100107

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding vicarious trauma in Australian foster care. This project aims to investigate experiences of vicarious trauma in Australian foster care. This project expects to generate new knowledge about antecedents and mitigators of vicarious trauma, and will do so by using interdisciplinary approaches to understand the specific contexts in which vicarious trauma may occur. Expected outcomes of this project includes the generation of national data about vicarious trauma in foster care through the development of a new measure of vicarious trauma. This should provide significant benefits, such as providing a clear means to assessing vicarious trauma, and through the development of a mobile app that will enable foster families in Australia to monitor and report experiences of vicarious trauma.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2023

End Date: 04-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $175,410.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sociology of family and relationships | Sociology | Community psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)