This project examines how physicians' and nurses' exposure to trauma through caring for
patients impacts the development of secondary traumatic stress, vicarious traumatization …

Recent research has determined that the indirect exposure to trauma creates the potential
for secondary trauma in health care professionals. Modern health care facilities have …

Vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress all have negative
costs associated with them that managers of health care agencies need to know about. This …

There is a growing interest in conceptual frameworks related to preventing stress responses
among mental health clinicians working with survivors of trauma. The following paper …

This chapter explores three important sources of psychological morbidity in the medical field:
compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout. The authors describe these concepts …

Caregivers who provide services to trauma survivors are at high risk of developing
secondary traumatic stress and burnout. Researchers and practitioners in the field of …

This workbook addresses the vital questions helpers, responders, and organizations have
about self-care and its relationship to resilience and sustained effectiveness in the midst of …

The relationship of burnout (BO), compassion fatigue (CF), compassion satisfaction (CS),
and secondary traumatic stress (STS) to personal/environmental characteristics, coping …

There is burgeoning interest in secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and self-
care in the helping professions. This multimethod study focused on therapists' stress and …

Nurses are exposed to traumatic patients and high stress regularly; this repeated exposure
can increase rates of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. When nurses are not …