Title: Vicarious traumatization - Wikipedia
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Vicarious traumatization
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Content: Countertransference is the psychotherapist 's response to a particular client. VT refers to responses across clients, across time. Unlike burnout, countertransference, and work-related stress, VT is specific to trauma workers. This means that the helper will experience trauma-specific difficulties, such as intrusive imagery, that are not part of burnout or countertransference. The burnout and vicarious traumatization constructs overlap, specifically regarding emotional exhaustion. 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.