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Contributing factors to secondary traumatic stress and vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists

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Title: Contributing factors to secondary traumatic stress and vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists
Authors: Eimear Cleary, David Curran, Kevin Dyer, Jane Simms, Donncha Hanna
Source: Cleary, E, Curran, D, Dyer, K, Simms, J & Hanna, D 2023, 'Contributing factors to secondary traumatic stress and vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists', Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22995, https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22995
Publisher Information: Wiley, 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Subject Terms: Male, Posttraumatic Growth, Burnout, Professional/psychology, Compassion Fatigue/psychology, Professional/psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Cross-Sectional Studies, name=Psychiatry and Mental health, Surveys and Questionnaires, Post-Traumatic, Psychological, Burnout, name=Clinical Psychology, Humans, Female, Compassion Fatigue, Empathy, Posttraumatic Growth, Psychological, Burnout, Professional, Stress Disorders
Description: Alongside the recognized potential negative repercussions of working as a psychological therapist, there is growing interest in the potential positive impacts of engaging in such work. The current study used a cross‐sectional online survey design to explore the impact of a range of demographic, work‐related, and compassion‐related factors on levels of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG) in an international sample of 359 psychological therapists. Hierarchical multiple regressions demonstrated that burnout, lower levels of self‐compassion, having a personal trauma history, reporting a higher percentage of working time with a trauma focus, and being female were the statistically significant contributors to STS scores, explaining 40.8% of the variance, F(9, 304) = 23.2, p F (10, 304) = 11.37, p
Document Type: Article
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
ISSN: 1573-6598
0894-9867
DOI: 10.1002/jts.22995
Access URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37985165
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/5bae58ac-b764-47fe-bad7-9da544cda220
Rights: CC BY NC
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....664ab0b8b78cdfcd5ec1f697cfad2ef6
Database: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:Alongside the recognized potential negative repercussions of working as a psychological therapist, there is growing interest in the potential positive impacts of engaging in such work. The current study used a cross‐sectional online survey design to explore the impact of a range of demographic, work‐related, and compassion‐related factors on levels of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG) in an international sample of 359 psychological therapists. Hierarchical multiple regressions demonstrated that burnout, lower levels of self‐compassion, having a personal trauma history, reporting a higher percentage of working time with a trauma focus, and being female were the statistically significant contributors to STS scores, explaining 40.8% of the variance, F(9, 304) = 23.2, p F (10, 304) = 11.37, p
ISSN:15736598
08949867
DOI:10.1002/jts.22995