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Vicarious trauma takes toll on many Americans mental health

‘Vicarious trauma’ takes toll on many Americans’ mental health ‘Vicarious trauma’ takes a toll on many Americans’ mental health By CNN Staff | April 27, 2021 at 2:19 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 2:19 PM (CNN) - From the pandemic to mass shootings and racial injustice, many Americans have been exposed to violence, fear and anger in the past year. If not directly then through social media or stories on the news. It can all take a toll on your mental health. “Even just us regular people, people just sitting on a couch listening to these stories are actually having the experience, secondary, as if they were involved in the trauma,” Sheryl Ziegler, a Denver-area therapist, said.

Feeling the strain

★ A dispassionate application of the law to the facts will only get you so far in the field of social justice law. To be truly effective, you must dig deep, listen, probe and bear witness to clients’ trauma. But what effect does this have on the lawyers involved, and what can we do to protect ourselves and colleagues from the impact of vicarious trauma? These are the issues addressed in this book. If you manage staff who represent traumatised clients, you may not be surprised to learn that lawyers exposed to vicarious trauma experience significantly higher levels of depression, anxiety and stress; but you should at least be concerned to learn that a small pilot study of UK asylum lawyers found that 34.3% met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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