From violent scenes depicted through conduits like the Internet, movies, news, or social media, to the traumatic experiences related to us by friends, co-workers, and family, such experiences can ...

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 ...

When we examine vicarious trauma in Latino and other communities of color, we cannot separate individual experience from the structural, institutional, and policy forces that shape their daily ...

Just because it didn’t happen to you does not mean it won’t affect you. 'Vicarious trauma' is real and more common than you realize. Today, when information is so easily accessible, we’re living in an ...

Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine while watching someone else in distress? This phenomenon, known as vicarious fear, allows us to experience fear by observing others—even when we are not ...

Officers, rape and crisis center employees, and other first responders listen to traumatic stories every day, which can impact their mental health indirectly, experts say. First responders and victim ...

The Vicarious Trauma Training Certificate Program is a comprehensive framework for understanding and managing the impact of trauma exposure in professional roles. The curriculum is designed to cover ...

BOGOTÁ — “There is a genocide going on in front of our very eyes — a live-streamed genocide. No one in the future will be able to say we did not know…” So declared Greta Thunberg, speaking on October ...