Understanding and Transforming Vicarious Trauma - 25 minutes
KEY CONCEPTS
Wherein we
- Explain Dr. Laurie Anne Pearlman's conceptualization of Vicarious Trauma: What it is, risk factors, and signs and symptoms
- The difference between traumatic stress and secondary traumatic stress
- How we can cope with Vicarious Trauma, and what it means to work to transform it
- Integrate a lens that includes differentiating between stress accumulation from repetition of challenging events, and from acuity of events