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Each has its own cause, symptoms, and path to healing.</p> </div> </div> <div class="hero-image"><img width="2560" height="508" src="https://www.nclap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/trauma-hero@2x-scaled.webp" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="eager" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.nclap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/trauma-hero@2x-scaled.webp 2560w, https://www.nclap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/trauma-hero@2x-300x60.webp 300w, https://www.nclap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/trauma-hero@2x-1170x232.webp 1170w, https://www.nclap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/trauma-hero@2x-768x153.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></div></section> <div class="main-content trauma clearfix"> <div class="section-components"> <section class="section rows-section"> <div class="container content-flow"> <div class="section-row is-grid"> <div class="section-row-header content-flow"> <h2 class="section-title">Unresolved Childhood Trauma</h2> <div class="section-ctas arrow-link"> <a href="https://www.nclap.org/what-we-help-with/trauma/childhood-trauma/" class="button" title="Read About Childhood Trauma &rsaquo;">Read About Childhood Trauma &rsaquo;</a> </div> </div> <div class="section-row-content content-flow"> <p>Many lawyers with a history of childhood trauma enter the profession, unconsciously seeking to heal by helping others similarly situated. While a noble aim, it dramatically increases risk for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section-row is-grid"> <div class="section-row-header content-flow"> <h2 class="section-title">Secondary or Vicarious Trauma</h2> <div class="section-ctas arrow-link"> <a href="https://www.nclap.org/what-we-help-with/trauma/secondary-trauma/" class="button" title="Read About Secondary Trauma &rsaquo;">Read About Secondary Trauma &rsaquo;</a> </div> </div> <div class="section-row-content content-flow"> <p>Many practice areas are saturated with trauma, putting everyone (judges, lawyers, support staff) at risk for compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious or secondary trauma regardless of personal history. The symptoms of prolonged stress disorder and secondary trauma mirror those of PTSD, whereby practitioners who have no history of personal trauma begin to display similar symptoms to trauma survivors. Symptoms can include anxiety, hypervigilance, dysregulated emotional states, over-reacting, isolation, intrusive thoughts/flashbacks to cases, and feelings of dread or imminent harm.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section-row is-grid"> <div class="section-row-header content-flow"> <h2 class="section-title">Crisis Event Trauma Response</h2> <div class="section-ctas arrow-link"> <a href="https://www.nclap.org/what-we-help-with/trauma/crisis-event-trauma/" class="button" title="Learn About Crisis Event Trauma Response &rsaquo;">Learn About Crisis Event Trauma Response &rsaquo;</a> </div> </div> <div class="section-row-content content-flow"> <p>While many of us are exposed to the traumatic experiences of our clients, we don鈥檛 often think in terms of experiencing trauma first-hand, personally or professionally. We like to think it would never happen to us, that it could never happen to us. But trauma does not discriminate. 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