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Human Services Network of Colorado

Building Resilience to Secondary Trauma

  • 08/30/2012
  • 9:15 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Aurora Mental Health, 1290 Chambers, Aurora, 80011
  • 5
  • 45 registrants

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The emotional costs of caring for clients with histories of trauma can be significant, including the loss of personal and professional resiliency. Secondary traumatic stress is now recognized as an occupational hazard of providing direct services to populations with histories of trauma. Vicarious trauma involves a transformation that occurs in the inner experience of the human services practitioner as a result of empathic engagement with a client’s traumatic experience.

Practitioners frequently serve clients who have experienced trauma associated with childhood abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault or other violent crimes, disasters, war, forced migration, and political torture. A growing body of research evidence has demonstrated that secondary traumatic stress from empathically engaging with these clients has the potential to erode work performance, undermine motivation and morale, and adversely impact the personal health of the practitioner.

Workshop objectives are to:
  • increase participant knowledge of traumatic stress and its impact on human service workers and their clients;
  • increase participant knowledge of individual coping skills that can be learned and used by human service workers and their clients to reduce the impact of secondary traumatic stress;
  • develop a personal action plan to reduce the effects of secondary traumatic stress on participants, their clients and their supervisors;
  • increase participant understanding of their supervisor's role in mitigating and preventing secondary traumatic stress;
  • increase participant knowledge of resiliency for both supervisors and staff members;
Who should attend? Workers and supervisors whose agencies serve a client population with a high incidence of traumatic stress.

Eligible for 3 Hours CEU.

Presenter, Margaret Charlton, PhD, ABPP,  Aurora Mental Health, Intercept Center. I did my graduate training in Clinical Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, receiving my PhD in 1986. I completed board certification through the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology in 2005. I am one of three co-authors of the Colorado volume of the APA book series: Law and Mental Health Professionals. Over the years, I have worked in a variety of settings, including private practice. I currently work for Intercept Center at Aurora Mental Health, where the population we work with is exclusively youth with mental illnesses and co-existing developmental disabilities, most of whom also have trauma histories. Because the children we work with have such extensive trauma histories, working with them can take a significant toll on clinicians. Developing ways of managing the stress experienced by our staff led me to my interest in helping professionals to manage the effects of secondary trauma.

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