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"It's like a secondary trauma".
Scientists call this "vicarious trauma" (or "secondary trauma").
The feeling of helplessness contributes to the secondary trauma of the doctors and nurses involved in a pregnancy or infant loss.
"Our caseworkers are experiencing secondary trauma and frustration at not being able to reunify children with their parents because of relapses," Spirk said.
A wide range of studies have examined evidence of "secondary trauma" in the children of Holocaust survivors, the wives of Vietnam veterans, and, more informally, in the families of U.S. veterans who've faced P.T.S.D. after deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Should being able to spot the onset of PTSD, or secondary trauma (STS) – where the aid worker has not experienced trauma directly, but has been affected by dealing with others who have – be a prerequisite of the pre-deployment process?
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"When we talk about police abuse of force and power, we're forgetting that there are primary and secondary traumas that stay with these communities". Prior to his sudden resignation related to allegations of sexual assault against former partners, New York District Attorney Eric Schneiderman was reportedly investigating Vassell's death, as were the NYPD's own internal forces.
Sympathetic ophthalmia has been reported to occur following penetrating eye injury secondary to trauma and surgery, and also secondary to non-penetrating eye trauma.
Renovascular injury secondary to trauma may result in haemorrhage, devascularisation, or urinary tract laceration.
Structural injury secondary to trauma may lead to an inflammatory response characterized by the release of inflammatory mediators such as substance P, prostaglandins, and bradykinin [ 42, 43].
Cerebral infarction has been recognized as a potential secondary injury after brain trauma.
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