secondary traumatization

secondary traumatization

1. see intergenerational trauma. [term introduced in 1985 by U.S. psychiatrist Robert A. Rosenheck and Indian-born U.S. psychiatrist Pramila M. Nathan]

2. see vicarious traumatization.

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