Vicarious trauma; it’s a term that you may or may not have heard before depending on your workplace or industry. Whether you’ve heard the term before or not, it’s an important concept to know; but what exactly does it mean? Early in the 1990’s researchers Karen Saakvitne, PhD and Laurie Anne Peralman, PhD defined the term as the “pervasive effect on the identity, worldview, psychological needs, beliefs, and memory systems of therapists who treat trauma survivors.” The term it