Time to Heal: Understanding how horizontal violence impacts sign language interpreters’ occupational health and culture
Presented By: Sarah Comerford
Date/Time: Fri. March 28, 2025/ 5-7pm MT
RID CEUs: 0.2 PS
Presentation Language: ASL
Workshop Description:
Horizontal violence has long impacted the interpreting field, as well as many other service professions. Negative interactions between interpreters during the interpreting encounter and in community settings cause emotional and mental strain, which in turn can impact the interpreter’s performance and individual well-being. In this workshop we will discuss why the interpreting field provides optimal conditions for horizontal violence to thrive and how this impacts our professional community’s occupational health and culture.
Workshop Objectives:
As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the essential components of horizontal violence including associated behaviors, impacts to community, and underlying systemic precursors.
- Differentiate between the interpersonal, generational, and sociocultural factors which contribute to occupational cultures of horizontal violence developing in service professions.
- Utilizing Demand-Control Schema, assess how behaviors associated with horizontal violence contribute to the environmental, interpersonal, paralinguistic, and intrapersonal demands present before, after, and during the interpreting encounter.