Discuss what secondary traumatic stress is, and how it is related to child maltreatment work.
What will be an ideal response?
Investigating, interviewing, examining, or treating children who have experienced and witnessed highly traumatizing events, as a routine job task, takes a toll on those who do this work. This daily psychological assault on professionals can be further compounded by the ever-present risk of primary trauma associated with working with volatile and threatening family members and, in some cases, in violent neighborhoods.Those working in child abuse situations can be the subject of threats and potential physical assault.Additionally, a number of individuals working in the field of child maltreatment have experienced primary trauma in their own childhoods and adolescence, thus adding personal trauma histories to the stressful sights and sounds of their work-related exposure. This can add up to an adverse effect on the ability of team members to do their work over time and have a negative psychological impact on the workers.
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