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Summary vakninsummaries.com/how-witnessing-a-trauma-can-traumatize-you-vicarious-traumatization-and-moral-injury

Transcript vaknintranscripts.com/2026/02/13/how-witnessing-a-trauma-can-traumatize-you-vicarious-traumatization-and-moral-injury

Witnessing abuse, torture, and crime shatters our belief in a just cosmos. In this sense, it is a moral calamity.

Vicarious traumatization is when you develop a trauma response to the traumatic experiences and reactions to trauma of others.

Vicarious (secondary) traumatization (VT)

Moral injury

Key Symptoms of Moral Injury
• Intense Emotional Distress
• Cognitive Distortions
• Behavioral Changes
• Existential Conflict
Causes of Moral Injury
• Acts of Commission/Omission
• Betrayal
• Ethical Conflict 

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