Mission: Trauma Certificate Program
The Trauma Certificate Program provides a foundational understanding of trauma theory and presents principles, tools and strategies that enable trauma-informed practice in service and treatment settings that support recovery and healing for adults and children and reduce inadvertent harm. Cultural considerations, ethical principles of practice, and the impact of trauma and appropriate support on direct service staff are also considered.
This series is appropriate for post-master's level clinical practitioners.
Date: Fri., Sep. 22, 2023 | Laura Hinds
Trauma in the Workplace: From Personal Experience to Vicarious Traumatization
4 CEUs
This course explores how trauma influences clinical and social services from a provider’s standpoint. Focus will be on practitioners managing their own personal trauma histories and triggers while navigating the activated and challenging behavior of clients, as well as the very real and derailing impact of high acuity clients, poverty, and vicarious experience that violence can have on practitioners. Learning objectives include: 1) learning how power, position, and privilege can re-enact trauma on clients; 2) exploration of ways in which a practitioner’s history of trauma, or experience of vicarious trauma may result when supporting the struggles of their clients; and 3) reflection on compassion fatigue and the tools to safeguard one’s practice and psyche from the impact of high level trauma.