Title: Vicarious traumatization - Wikipedia
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Vicarious traumatization
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Content: This in turn implies the individual nature of responses or adaptations to VT as well as individual ways of coping with and transforming it. Anything that interferes with the helper's ability to fulfill his/her responsibility to assist traumatized clients can contribute to vicarious trauma. Many human service workers report that administrative and bureaucratic factors that impediment to their effectiveness influence work satisfaction. Negative aspects of the organization as a whole, such as reorganization, downsizing in the name of change management and a lack of resources in the name of lean management, contribute to burned-out workers. Vicarious trauma has also been attributed to the stigmatization of mental health care among service providers. Stigma leads to an inability to engage in self care and eventually the service provider may reach burnout, and become more likely to experience VT. The research has also begun to show that vicarious trauma is more prominent in those with a prior history of trauma and adversity. Research indicates that a mental health provider's defense style might pose as a risk factor for vicarious traumatization. Mental health providers with self-sacrificing defense styles have been found to experience increased vicarious traumatization. Related concepts
While the term "vicarious trauma" has been used interchangeably with " compassion fatigue ", "secondary traumatic stress disorder," " burnout ," " countertransference ," and " work-related stress ," there are important differences.