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: 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. You are not alone. You can encourage healing for someone else experiencing STS/CF. Journal. Write out your thoughts and emotional experiences in detail. Print them out and ceremoniously burn them to symbolically let it all go.