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Counseling is a risky and rewarding business. While counseling invites mental health counselors to participate with their clients in the awesome process of human growth and healing, it also may threaten their well being through exposure to their clients' trauma and its painful consequences.The authors present a metaphor of a healthy tree to organize an overview of recent research regarding the risk and protective factors of vicarious traumatization of counselors. Implications for the practice, supervision, and management of counseling are presented.
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