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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Professional and Volunteer Peer Advocates Experience Similar Levels of Secondary Traumatic Stress

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Clinical Science

  • Shekina Barber
    Fielding Graduate University
  • Kristine Jacquin
    Fielding Graduate University

Abstract

We examined the difference in occurrences of secondary traumatic stress (STS) among professional and volunteer peer advocates. Results showed that professional and volunteer peer advocates had similar secondary traumatic stress symptom levels.

Stress