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Concept Definition Specificity to Trauma Specificity to Professionals Burnout8 Emotional exhaustion in a professional resulting from differences between expectations/aspirations for interpersonal work and the depleting conditions of workplace reality No Yes Vicarious trauma16 Natural response to highly demanding professional work with trauma material; can lead to long term changes in examiner attitudes and beliefs Yes Yes Compassion fatigue14 Overwhelming feelings of suffering, sorrow, or sympathy arising from desire to reduce suffering of others No Yes Secondary traumatic stress10 Natural behaviors and emotions resulting from knowledge of a traumatizing event, associated with wanting to help a victim Yes Yes Posttraumatic stress disorder17 Clinical syndrome of discrete symptoms (intrusive phenomena; avoidance; mood, cognitive, and arousal abnormalities) following exposure to a serious traumatic event Yes No