After interviewing health-care workers who had responded to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York City, Erin Smith, a disaster-response researcher at Edith Cowan University in Perth, ...

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 ...

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 ...