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

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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

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Cleary, E., Curran, D., Dyer, K., Simms, J., & Hanna, D. (2024). Contributing factors to secondary traumatic stress and vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 37(1), 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22995

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