Shared Traumatic Stress: Practice Insights for Clinicians

Shared Traumatic Stress: Practice Insights for Clinicians introduces a groundbreaking new concept, shared trauma, which goes beyond secondary trauma to address the unique experience of clinicians and other professionals who are exposed to trauma on both personal and professional levels. Shared trauma speaks to the experience of clinicians who are dually exposed, primarily as members of an community affected by trauma and secondarily through the trauma narratives of their clients. Based on cutting-edge research and steeped in the practical wisdom that can be gained only from living and working in traumatogenic environments, Shared Traumatic Stress helps students, clinicians and supervisors conceptualize their experience and offers them guidelines for practice, supervision, and self-care.