Documentary Gives Insight into How "Caregivers" Deal With Trauma (kcvnews.org)
A new documentary called “Portraits of Professional Caregivers” explores the secondary traumatic stress that caregivers such as doctors, therapists, and first responders experience on a daily basis. It’s a look into the people whose line of work gives them what’s called secondary traumatic stress – the kind of toxic stress you experience from caring for people with PTSD. That includes social workers, police officers, doctors, therapists – anyone who is a professional caregiver to traumatized...