Exposure to news and personal stories detailing traumatic events batters our emotional reserves. Whether conversing with a disaster victim or witnessing horrific images on social media or TV, our ...

Vicarious trauma is trauma a person feels indirectly, or vicariously, through another person. It is common among certain professions including healthcare workers, lawyers, and counselors. Vicarious ...

In professions requiring emotional investment and exposure to others’ struggles, terms like compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma often come up. While these conditions share some similarities, they ...

From mass shootings and wars to hurricanes that level entire towns and wildfires consuming whole communities, the vivid details of tragedies and disasters flood our media screens and bring the world’s ...