Victim Rescuer Persecution Triangle

The victim-rescuer persecution (VRP) triangle a psychological model used to explain the roles of the victim and responders spiraling is destructive patterns during a crisis. It is oddly known as the drama triangle that negatively cause a riff in relief effort. Within each unique dynamics, each individual or group display negative positions such as the following: co-dependent, self-blaming, and victim-blaming often spinning from one to another. These hindrance characteristic are often unidentified by the possessor that has the potential of destroying any opportunity in developing a healthy relationship between the victim and rescuer (crisis management teams) during the exposure to a critical incident.
Within this entanglement, the three roles are defined with their own dysfunctional aspects. The Victims render themselves helpless reducing their power to adequately cope with their crisis or trauma. This produce negative thoughts increased by self-blaming and they spend countless hour …show more content…
Each individual fail to understand their role during a critical incident as it is expect because of the disruptive of their daily activities. Crisis impact person’s ability to function with their normal daily lives causing them to become emotional and physiologically unstable. In this cycle, the victim blame themselves, the rescuers blame the victim, and the persecutor blames everyone. How do we break this cycle? According to Hoff, Hallisey, and Hoff, (2009), it is simply to break this cycle of spiraling destructive patterns during a crisis. One must simply acknowledge and understanding the negatively display patterns and roles by changing the interpersonal dynamics. As a crisis management team it is our responsibility to eliminate victim-rescuer persecution as it effects the following: delays the healing process, hinders relationship forming, and has negatively impact a relief