Open AccessVicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress or Simply Burnout? Effect of Trauma Therapy on Mental Health Professionals
Author(s) -
Grant J. Devilly,
R Douglas Wright,
Tracey Varker
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.66
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1440-1614
pISSN - 0004-8674
DOI - 10.1080/00048670902721079
Subject(s) - burnout , compassion fatigue , stressor , mental health , distress , affect (linguistics) , traumatic stress , clinical psychology , medicine , psychology , observational study , mental distress , psychiatry , communication , pathology
The aim of the present study was to perform an assessment for secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma (VT) and workplace burnout for Australian mental health professionals involved in clinical practice.
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