Title: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue
Headings: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue
Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue
What is Secondary Traumatic Stress?
What are the Symptoms of Secondary Traumatic Stress?
How is Compassion Fatigue Different?
12 Therapeutic Strategies for Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress
Self-Care is an Essential

Content: They can have anxiety about their feelings because their career is not related to healthcare or community service. A person can even become fixated on not wanting to forget the pain so that the trauma victim can. They can also feel embarrassed or ashamed to be “an emotional wreck over someone else’s problems.” How is Compassion Fatigue Different? Compassion Fatigue can arguably be described as a stage of trying to cope with repeated exposure to trauma. It can show up as: Emotionally disengaging, feeling “numb” or experiencing an inability to empathize or sympathize, nurture or emotionally connect to a person who has experienced physical or emotional trauma and is in need of care. In this stage of attempting to cope, common responses may include: irritability, outbursts of anger or rage, difficulty trusting, needing to control, avoidance, isolation, stoicism, denial, communicating with resentment, cynicism or sarcasm. 12 Therapeutic Strategies for Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress
Reach out to others.