Vicarious Trauma: Help for the Helper 17 March

This workshop covers:
- What is Vicarious Trauma? (definition, signs and symptoms)
- Differentiating burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
- Exploring risk factors and protective factors
- Tools for assessment, prevention and intervention
- Empathy, compassion, vicarious resilience and post-traumatic growth
- Building a personalized self-care plan

This introductory-intermediate level workshop is suitable for anyone working in helping fields eg. Counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, primary and emergency health care, crisis responders, criminal justice system, schools, hospitals, prisons, etc. where there is ongoing exposure to potentially traumatic material such as people’s trauma stories, reports with trauma content, reading material, legal reports, compensation claims, visual trauma material and media content.

This is also appropriate for anyone concerned about the toll and impact of their workload on their personal and professional functioning, looking to have a better understanding of what vicarious trauma is and tools for prevention.

NOTE - If your organisation is interested in having Andra present online to your team as a private workshop, please contact [email protected] for more information.