Workshop Description: This 2-hour training provides participants with the tools to sustain themselves in their work by understanding, acknowledging, and responding to the ways they are impacted by the experiences of those with whom they work. We will explore the toll that working with people who have been through trauma has on human service professionals through vicarious and direct exposures. Advances in the concepts of trauma stewardship and secondary traumatic stress will be described. The framework of the 3Rs of Self-Care: Reflection, Regulation, and Relaxation will be introduced, and examples of safe and healthy coping strategies in each of these domains will be provided. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own understanding and strategies for coping, and to consider ways to address the barriers to engaging in self-care on personal, systemic, and societal levels, so that they may remain able to provide optimum levels of intervention. This training provides participants the opportunity to create sustainable self-care plans. Objectives: Upon Completion of this training, the participants will (be able to): 1. Describe definitions of and impacts of trauma, toxic stress, and vicarious trauma 2. Identify what factors contribute to mental health clinicians’, susceptibility to vicarious trauma and how this can impact their ability to conduct appropriate care if not addressed. 3. Describe the framework of the 3Rs of personal self-care and identify at least one strategy they can use for Reflection, Regulation, and Relaxation. 4. Discuss the role of personal self-care in the broader context of the need for systemic and societal approaches for caring for ourselves.
Presented by: Riverside Trauma Center Staff: Riverside Trauma Center’s highly-trained, licensed mental health professionals have extensive clinical experience with trauma, suicide survivors and suicide prevention.
