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RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 27-35Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1049731503254106
Keywords
secondary traumatic stress; vicarious traumatization; scale development
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Objective: To describe the development and validation of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS), a 17-item instrument designed to measure intrusion, avoidance, and arousal symptoms associated with indirect exposure to traumatic events via one's professional relationships with traumatized clients. Method: A sample of 287 licensed social workers completed a mailed survey containing the STSS and other relevant survey items. Results: Evidence was found for reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, and factorial validity. Conclusions: The STSS fills a need for reliable and valid instruments specifically designed to measure the negative effects of social work practice with traumatized populations. The instrument may be used to undertake empirical investigation into the prevention and amelioration of secondary traumatic stress among social work practitioners.
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