title: Secondary trauma in the legal professions, a clinical perspective.
abstract: This article describes the importance of being aware of secondary trauma in lawyers, interpreters, judges, police, forensic physicians and other professionals that work with traumatized clients. In addition, it presents a psycho-educational model developed by the author to address secondary trauma among those associated with the legal and clinical professions.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Study of Psychosocial Trauma, California, USA. dr.yaelfischman@sbcglobal.net
authors.forename: Yael
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fischman
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D033241:Lawyers; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010820:Physicians; D016495:Police; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*