Secondary trauma: The psychologist who helped traumatized people, then needed help herself
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- Psychologist Pia Andreatta has supported people in crisis for years.
- After her first international deployment, she began struggling with her own mental health.
- The piece explores secondary trauma and the treatment that helped her.
Pia Andreatta spent years helping people through emergencies. After her first international assignment, however, she found herself struggling and needed support of her own.
Her experience illustrates the idea of secondary trauma, in which professionals who care for traumatized people can themselves be affected by the suffering they encounter.
The article examines how trauma can become contagious and what helped Andreatta recover.
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Originally published by Der Spiegel in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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