Türkiye Sağlık Bilimleri ve Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Merve ÖZKUL, Esra ÇALIK VAR

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Secondary traumatic stress,Social support,Posttraumatic stress disorder

Özet: Traumatic experiences are defined as events in which there is a real death or death threat, a threat to severe injury or physical integrity, and where the person lives or witnesses himself / herself. In other words, the occurrence of any traumatic experience in a person's life affects not only himself, but also the people he has relationship with. Individuals are affected by this condition are also known to have symptoms such as increased arousal, relapse and avoidance, as well as in the same post-traumatic stress disorder. Professional staffs working with trauma victims expose indirectly to trauma and this situation is named as secondary traumatic stress. It is concluded that there are different risk and protective factors in terms of secondary traumatic stress symptoms and one of the most important protective factors is the social support factor. Therefore, this study is designed to examine the relationship between secondary traumatic stress and social support in accordance with the information in the literature.

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