With vicarious trauma and burnout becoming pressing issues among mental health professionals dealing with families and communities in crisis, research has focused on the amelioration of the consequences of the excessive demands of their work. Thus, a number of interventions have been implemented intending to prevent the adverse emotional effects that mental health professionals experience, including education and training in identifying and ameliorating burnout symptoms in an early stage, team meetings and supervisory support. Lamentably, sometimes prevention is not enough and the treatment of the mental health professional experiencing adverse effects is necessary.

Treatment interventions most often focus on the need for transformation of negative beliefs and alleviation of despair, demoralization and lose of hope created by vicarious traumatization and burnout. Preferred therapeutic interventions for aiding professionals involve cognitive strategies, such as cognitive reconstruction and anger management, that help identify their cognitive schemas and the nature of their relationships and experience their emotions. Thus, professionals are better able to establish personal limits and boundaries in their relationships. Stress management techniques such as relaxation exercises are also particularly effective behavioral strategies. This type of interventions can take place as individual therapy, but also in a group setting, where not only intrapersonal but also interpersonal and organizational issues can be discussed with other team members.

Psychoanalytically oriented therapy is also recommended to help professionals better understand their patients' experience, cope with their negative reactions, increase their self – awareness and make meaning out of their experience with families in crisis. In addition, psychodrama provides a unique opportunity for mental health professionals to become more aware of their own feelings and thoughts.

Finally, in combination with the previous forms of treatment, the Ericksonian technique can be administered, which is one of the most effective forms of hypnosis. Crucial to Erickson's approach is the idea that every person has access to the information needed to make the changes necessary in their life. Using it, mental health professionals can develop a deeper understanding of the unconscious, stop maladaptive behaviors and begin mastering their life, feel safe, appreciate what they value most and reduce PTSD symptoms. Using any of the above interventions alone or in combination the mental health professionals can maintain the commitment to continue working with families and communities in crisis and remain well themselves.