Patricia’s research interests include Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue, the topic of her Master’s thesis, and a PhD thesis on Depictions of Suffering in the post-secondary human service classroom. Patricia holds non-competitive research grants as a collaborative partner in research related to Intimate Partner Violence on post-secondary campuses. Patricia provides Critical Incident Debriefing for a youth serving agency in Calgary and most of her career has been related to crisis management.