Breaking down Vicarious Trauma: Supporting Trauma Workers Who Work among Survivors of Sex Trafficking in India
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Trauma workers who work at the grassroots levels of sex trafficking rehabilitation are face to face with the survivor’s struggle. Their roles are essential to lay the foundations of recovery and reintegration for the survivors. This article focuses on what vicarious trauma means and how acknowledging its presence as an occupational hazard will help shape organization policies and structures in a way that empowers trauma workers to continue to bring quality work from an intentional, supported, and grounded space.
Authors: Anne Zachariah, Tony Sam George
Institution: Christ University
Language: English
Topic: Sex work and related issues
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7117586981