{"id":38,"date":"2015-03-03T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:59:02","slug":"6-impact-of-secondary-trauma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/6-impact-of-secondary-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Impact of secondary trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"
Secondary trauma is most likely to occur when people witness the aftermath of a traumatic incident. According to Dr Charles Figley, author of Compassion Fatigue, Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, (Figley 1995<\/a>) secondary traumatic stress is \u2018the natural consequent behaviours resulting from knowledge about a traumatizing event experienced by a significant other. It is the stress resulting from helping or wanting to help a traumatised or suffering person\u2019. This confirms David Conrad\u2019s view that people who work with, listen to and try and help traumatised children are at risk for internalising their children\u2019s trauma, leading to secondary trauma. There are a number of reasons for this.<\/p>\n Secondary trauma may also be experienced by siblings. A \u2018too good child\u2019 who is living with an angry, acting out sibling may have started to attach to new parenting figures but live in fear that their placement might disrupt as a result of their sibling\u2019s behaviour. This fear might preclude the \u2018too good child\u2019 from being able to show \u2018all of themselves\u2019 to their parenting figures and reduce their capacity for attachment. The child might feel that the pain of disruption will be lessened if they keep their feelings in check.<\/p>\n While not the subject of this article, the same factors may be true for professionals; the residential staff, social workers, therapists, teachers who are supporting traumatised children and their carers. We can all be impacted by trauma and it is those professionals who are at the forefront of caring and\/or who have the greatest capacity for empathy that are most likely to suffer a secondary trauma reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Secondary trauma is most likely to occur when people witness the aftermath of a traumatic incident. According to Dr Charles Figley, author of Compassion Fatigue, Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, (Figley 1995) secondary traumatic stress is \u2018the natural consequent behaviours resulting from knowledge about a traumatizing event experienced by a significant other. It is … Continue reading 6. Impact of secondary trauma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/trauma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n