<b>Formerly title: Self Care in Trauma Work.</b> Trauma affects everyone it touches. Working with trauma survivors and ongoing exposure to traumatic material puts professionals and their supervisors at risk for secondary traumatic stress (vicarious trauma), burnout and compassion fatigue. These are serious occupational hazards that can increase liability and compromise effectiveness with clients as well as the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of the professional. This webinar provides professionals with easy to use, valid and reliable tools for assessing and identifying the signs of vicarious trauma and burnout in their staff and in themselves. The importance of self-care and its relationship with best practice and professional ethics are examined. A variety of physical, emotional, spiritual and recreational self-care techniques that prevent and/or reverse compassion fatigue and burnout are presented and practiced. Participants will leave the webinar with a toolkit of quick, easy and free tools for self-care. [Required for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]
Working with Trauma: Understanding Vicarious Trauma and the Importance of Self-Care
9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Live Interactive Online Webinar
$60.00
Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW
To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.
Certificate Display
3.0 Clinical
Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Explain the differences between burnout, brownout, and compassion fatigue for professional caregivers.
Describe the importance of self-care and its relationship with best practice and ethical behavior.
Differentiate the types and behavioral examples of empathic strain.
Formulate an individualized self-care plan.
Audience
Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals