{"id":1961,"date":"2023-04-17T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T03:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:19:08","slug":"re067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re067\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the Trauma Reporting Study Group for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

In FY2022, the Trauma Reporting Study Group<\/a> held\u00a0ten sessions from the 9th to the 18th.<\/p>\n

Two of the sessions featured guest speakers who shared their experiences as interviewees and interviewers. One guest, Ms. Jun Yamamoto, played a central role in creating the \u201cGuidebook for Covering Sexual Violence Victimization<\/a>\u201d in 2016, which was co-created by victims and reporters. As a survivor and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner-Japan (SANE-J), she shared the process and trigger for creating the guidebook, which is designed to benefit both interviewees and interviewers. Ms. Yamamoto, who said she was sometimes frustrated and bothered by interviewers who did not understand her trauma, remarked, \u201cI’m tired of interviews that lack consideration, even if they’re not done with malice,\u201d which strongly impressed us.<\/p>\n

For the other eight sessions, the group continued reading \u201cTrauma Reporting: A Journalist’s Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories<\/em>\u201d (2020) by Jo Healey, a British book that provides advice from veteran reporters and the people who have been interviewed after they or their family members have been involved in an incident or disaster.<\/p>\n

In FY2022, the group read from Chapter 6, \u201cThe interview,\u201d to Chapter 10, \u201cThe self-care.\u201d The book presents the types of actions that can deepen the damage for interviewees and offers good practices for journalists. One particularly notable aspect was that it even provides guidance on how to finish and leave an interview, including, before leaving the interviewees, trying to talk that helps bring them back to the \u201chere and now\u201d to avoid leaving them in a state of pain relived. In addition, the chapter on \u201cThe follow-ups\u201d covers later revisits and \u201canniversary\u201d coverage, which allowed us to reaffirm the need to consider trauma and coverage from a long-term perspective.<\/p>\n

The chapter on \u201cThe self-care,\u201d written by Australian psychologist Cait McMahon, highlights that interviewer can be affected not only physically and mentally but also in an existential sense (e.g., trust in the world and God is disrupted, a sense of mission of the work is lost, etc.), and on the other hand, PTG (post-traumatic growth) may sometimes be felt. The chapter also offers concrete tips for how to deal with these effects.<\/p>\n

The book provided concrete examples and tips, making it easier for the group to consider these issues. It also made us keenly aware that more specific guidelines are necessary in Japan as well, rather than merely suggesting \u201cbe considerate\u201d or \u201cdon’t strain yourself.\u201d In the discussion, as in the previous year, there was much discussion regarding \u201cboundaries to be aware of as professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the upcoming year, we will continue to explore potential outcomes for the study group while completing the remaining chapters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In FY2022, the Trauma Reporting Study Group held\u00a0t<\/p>\n

Continue Reading<\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,13,15,122],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-ethics","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-trauma-reporting"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}