Title: 
Headings: Secondary Traumatic Stress Overview
Secondary
 
Traumatic
 
Stress
 
Overview
 

Definitions:
 

Common
 
Sources
 
of
 
Secondary
 
Traumatic
 
Stress:
 

Statistics:
 

How
 
to
 
recognize
 
it?
 

Affects:
 

Prevention:
  

Methods:
 

Current
 
Practices:
 


Content: Secondary Traumatic Stress Overview
Secondary
 
Traumatic
 
Stress
 
Overview
 
Definitions: Secondary
 
Traumatic
 
Stress/Vicarious
 
Trauma
 
(STS/VT): STS
 
is
 
a
 
secondary
 
trauma
 
which
 
results
 
from
 
indirect
 
exposure
 
to
 
trauma. Defined
 
by
 
Dr.
 
Charles
 
Figley,
 
Secondary
 
Traumatic
 
Stress
 
Disorder
 
is
 
“the
 
natural
 
consequent
 
behaviors
 
resulting
 
from
 
knowledge
 
about
 
a
 
traumatizing
 
event
 
experienced
 
by
 
a
 
significant
 
other. It
 
is
 
the
 
stress
 
resulting
 
from
 
helping
 
or
 
wanting
 
to
 
help
 
a
 
traumatized
 
or
 
suffering
 
person”
 
(Figley,
 
1995). Burnout: Although
 
burnout
 
has
 
many
 
of
 
the
 
same
 
causes
 
and
 
symptoms
 
of
 
secondary
 
trauma,
 
burnout
 
results
 
from
 
long
 
term
 
non-supportive
 
work
 
environments. It
 
differs
 
from
 
secondary
 
trauma
 
in
 
that
 
exposure
 
to
 
clients’
 
trauma
 
is
 
not
 
the
 
precipitating
 
factor
 
(Siegfried,
 
2008). Post
 
Traumatic
 
Stress
 
Disorder
 
(PTSD): PTSD
 
is
 
a
 
primary
 
trauma
 
which
 
results
 
from
 
direct
 
exposure
 
to
 
the
 
traumatic
 
experience.