When we examine vicarious trauma in Latino and other communities of color, we cannot separate individual experience from the ...

The images are graphic, disturbing, and endless, says a former Facebook employee. Her job as a content moderator required that she review and remove disturbing posts. That work, she claimed in a ...

Escaping the imagery of everyday racial trauma where individuals are being hurt, harmed, or killed because of their race can be nearly impossible. We live in a world of constant news cycles and social ...

Vicarious identity occurs when people actually appropriate others’ stories as their own, as if they happened to them, integrating them as part of their own identity. Psychologists who are exposed to ...

Ellen Fink-Samnick, discusses how the pandemic is creating trauma among healthcare professionals and what can be done about it. Editor's note: On July 23, Ellen Fink-Samnick MSW, ACSW, LCSW, CCM, CRP, ...

After interviewing health-care workers who had responded to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York City, Erin Smith, a disaster-response researcher at Edith Cowan University in Perth, ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? An elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was the site of the most recent mass ...

Psychological trauma is a response to an event that a person finds highly stressful. Examples include being in a war zone, a natural disaster, or an accident. Trauma can cause a wide range of physical ...