Understanding and Transforming Vicarious Trauma

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