Title: Vicarious traumatization - Wikipedia
Headings: Vicarious traumatization
Vicarious traumatization
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Content: A worker may experience both VT and burnout, and each has its own remedies. VT and countertransference may also co-occur, intensifying each other. Unlike vicarious trauma, countertransference can be a very useful tool for psychotherapists, providing them with important information about their clients. Work-related stress is a generic term without a theoretical basis, specific signs and symptoms or contributing factors, or remedies. Burnout and vicarious trauma can co-exist. Countertransference responses may potentiate vicarious trauma. Vicarious post-traumatic growth, unlike VTF, is not a theory-based construct but rather is based on self-reported signs. Body-centred countertransference
Mechanism
The posited mechanism for vicarious traumatization is empathy. Different forms of empathy may result in different effects on helpers. Batson and colleagues have conducted research that might inform trauma helpers about ways to manage empathic connection constructively.