After a natural disaster like the Los Angeles wildfires, teachers are often a first line of support for children processing trauma — but teachers can also experience what expert Stephen Hydon calls ...

Secondary Traumatic Stress is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, (DSM-5) as a term for the emotional duress suffered by a professional who hears about ...

Neuroscience confirms what we know intuitively: connection heals. Oxytocin, often called the “bonding hormone,” is released ...

The violence is consuming your thoughts. The social media apps you use for a distraction from reality are flooded with accounts and updates about the mass shooting. You may even start to feel the ...

Many clients experience trauma, particularly children and families in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems. Secondary trauma, also called vicarious trauma or compassion fatigue, mimics the ...

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 ...

If you practice family law for any length of time, you are likely at some point to experience secondary trauma. The massive changes our society has undergone, and is still undergoing, have affected ...

NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with psychologist Manuel Zamarripa, Ph.D, on the collective and secondary trauma felt after events like mass shootings and ways to manage those feelings. Recent mass ...

Secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and, less formally, second-hand trauma are all terms used to describe the phenomena in which an individual is indirectly, yet significantly impacted by learning of ...

With secondary trauma, a lot of people don’t recognize that the things assaulting them from the media are assaulting their own ability to cope. So sometimes people have to get aware of what’s going on ...