title: Predictors of secondary traumatic stress among children's advocacy center forensic interviewers.
abstract: This study examined various predictor variables that were hypothesized to impact secondary traumatic stress in forensic interviewers ( n  = 257) from children's advocacy centers across the United States. Data were examined to investigate the relationship between organizational satisfaction, organizational buffers, and job support with secondary traumatic stress using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale. The most salient significant result was an inverse relationship between three indicators of job support and secondary traumatic stress. Also significant to secondary traumatic stress were the age of interviewer and whether the forensic interviewer had experienced at least one significant loss in the previous 12 months. Implications for future research, training, program practice, and policy are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA. kbonach@iup.edu
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bonach
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heckert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy; D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000379:methods; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012944:Social Support; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000078329:Workforce