Examples Of Vicarious Trauma

Vicarious trauma is when a person, who has not experienced a traumatic event himself or herself, begins to display symptoms of trauma and crisis because of hearing about or witnessing the traumatic events victims of crisis. Vicarious trauma usually unfolds over time or dependent upon the intensity of the crisis experience. Because vicarious trauma can happen to individuals who are trying to care for victims of crisis, it is important that those who have experience crisis is given a safe, yet “initial” place to share what they went through. The principle of vicarious traumatization is that victims of crisis be placed in groups of other people who have experienced very similar events that they were traumatized by. The purpose of this principal