Caring with Compassion
Risk Factors of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS)
Secondary Traumatic Stress is a part of our jobs and affects everyone.
Some risk factors that make us more susceptible to STS:
- Empathy level
- Excessive "other-care" orientation
- Exposure severity
- High trauma caseload
- Unpredictability
- Lack of supervisory support
- Escape-avoidance coping style
- One’s own trauma history
- Personal stressors
