Working with Trauma: Understanding Vicarious Trauma and the Importance of Self-Care

In honor of Social Work Month, join Spence-Chapin for a FREE Continuing Education Workshop in partnership with Rutgers School of Social Work featuring training by Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW.

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 will provide 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 will be 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.

This unique workshop is designed with a particular focus on professionals working in the perinatal healthcare field, social workers, and child welfare professionals. Throughout the free training, participants will be introduced to Spence-Chapin and the free services we offer to women and couples who are considering adoption or making an adoption plan for their baby.

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 New York, New Jersey, and Arizona.

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Questions? Please contact Talia Oren at [email protected] or 212-360-0245.