Understanding vicarious trauma and vicarious posttraumatic growth

  • Eimear Cleary

Student thesis: Doctoral ThesisDoctorate in Clinical Psychology

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the areas of vicarious trauma and vicarious posttraumatic growth through a meta-analysis which aimed to explore the linear relationship between VT and VPTG and a quantitative study which aimed to explore the demographic, work-related and intrapsychic factors which may be potential statistical predictors of vicarious trauma and vicarious posttraumatic growth in psychological therapists.
Date of AwardDec 2021
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • Queen's University Belfast
SupervisorDonncha Hanna (Supervisor), David Curran (Supervisor), Kevin Dyer (Supervisor) & Jane Simms (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Trauma
  • secondary traumatic stress
  • vicarious trauma
  • posttraumatic growth

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