What Is Vicarious Trauma? | #vicarioustrauma #cptsd #burnout #ptsd #trauma #traumaticstress

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]What is vicarious trauma? Vicarious trauma is simply the emotional and physiological impacts of indirect exposure to trauma. Vicarious trauma can occur from reading about someone's experience of trauma, from hearing about someone's experience of trauma, from witnessing someone else's experience of trauma, any second-hand exposure to someone else's trauma can cause vicarious trauma.