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Vicarious trauma


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VICARIOUS TRAUMA
[noun]
1. the ability to identify with another person, to understand and feel another person’s pain and joy.
2. to experience psychological or physical pain through someone else.
3. vicarious traumatisation: a transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatised clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
