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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

What factors stand out to you as possible contributors to your Secondary Traumatic Stress?

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