Working with Trauma: Understanding Vicarious Trauma, Vicarious Resilience, and the Importance of Self-Care (CEU Workshop in partnership with Rutgers School of Social Work)

In honor of Social Work Month, we invite you to join Spence-Chapin for a FREE Continuing Education Workshop featuring training by Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW, Rutgers School of Social Work.

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 impact 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 signs of vicarious trauma and burnout in both their staff and themselves. The importance of self-care and its relationship to best practices and professional ethics is 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.

The Office of Continuing Education at Rutgers School of Social Work is an ASWB national CE provider and will provide 3 Clinical CE hours for social workers and professional counselors in Arizona, New York, and New Jersey.

This workshop is not yet open for registration. For additional information, contact Talia Oren at [email protected] or 212-360-0245.