Trauma Stewardship
Overview
Mental health service providers may experience feelings of burnout as a result of providing trauma-focused treatment with a lack of awareness and resources devoted to the prevention of secondary trauma. Recently, there have been reports of heightened levels of anxious thoughts, depressed moods, fearfulness, and disengagement due to a global pandemic as well as a crisis of highly charged political, economic, and racial turmoil which is impacting the ability to engage in our work and care for ourselves. Trauma stewardship is a method of identifying and coping with the impacts that exposure to others' trauma can have on our work, our relationships, and our internal experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations). When the brain is experiencing traumatic stress, energy is focused on survival, and learning and reasoning are negatively impacted. Implementation of trauma informed methods, such as the Trauma Stewardship approach, can be utilized to address secondary trauma and promote resilience in those working in mental health services. The presenters will provide training on how to cope with these experiences in order to increase provider wellbeing — and how this manifests as improved quality of care for clients with trauma history.
Learning objectives
- Describe the trauma exposure-response and its relationship to mental health practice
- Explore the impact of secondary trauma on your experience working in mental health services
- Identify methods for addressing secondary trauma for self and others using the Trauma Stewardship approach
Training times
This training is provided at the time(s) and format(s) shown below.