Compassion strain, compassion fatigue, secondary post-traunatic stress and secondary PTSD are defined among the wide range of helper symptoms. Symptoms are as wide ranging as those of survivors, and this is understandable as helpers reverberate and identify with survivors and attempt to complement their unsuccessful survival strategies. Helper stresses, traumas and illnesses are as well as treatment are conceptualised and placed in a coherent order.
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Paul Valent
MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP
Consultant liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist, traumatologist,
Co-founder and past president Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
Writer.