What is it all about?
Vicarious Trauma affects a large number of professionals who are immersed in work with vulnerable or traumatised individuals in the UK. It often involves hearing or reading accounts from individuals about something very bad happening in their life. Overtime, hearing accounts of violence and abuse can have a potentially detrimental impact on the psychological well-being of professionals. This training is aimed at helping professionals understand the impact of vicarious trauma so that they can care for themselves and other staff.
Who would find this useful?
This would be useful for every professional that takes their own wellbeing and that of their colleagues seriously. The training is suitable for frontline staff and managers. Improved health and wellbeing of staff can significantly increase how effectively you deliver services and the sustainability of your service.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand Vicarious trauma.
- Understand Psychological trauma.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
- The role of empathy and compassion.
- Empathy work and emotional reactions to other people’s trauma.
- Effects of Vicarious trauma.
- Preventing Vicarious trauma and responding to symptoms.
- Practicing professional boundaries.
- Nurturing resilience.
- Self-care, peer, and organisational support.
This course is accredited by The CPD Certification Service.
This course is also available as e-learning. For more information about our e-learning courses, please visit our Webinars & E-learning page here.
For more information about this course or to book Vicarious Trauma training please contact us at [email protected].