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What is Vicarious Trauma? The word Vicarious itself means to experience something through the experience of another – by listening to their story, reading about their experience, or learning of what occurred in regard to another person. Some may have heard the phrase, often negative, of a parent “living vicariously through their child.” Such statements are usually directed at parents who are assumed to over-identify with their children’s activities, almost to the point of feeling or acting as if the child’s dance lessons, football games, or artistic pursuits are their own. It speaks to a blending of the self with another – the impact of something happening to someone else but affecting you.

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