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What is Secondary Traumatic Stress?
“Secondary” traumatic stress is a misnomer used to describe emotional and physiological distress that develops from indirect exposure to another person’s traumatic experiences. Trauma is trauma. Your body doesn’t care whether something scary happened directly to you or if you watched … Continue reading
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