The Toll of Working with Trauma: Understanding Self-Care as an Ethical Imperative
The Toll of Working with Trauma:
Understanding Self-Care as an Ethical Imperative
It is necessary for human service professionals to understand, acknowledge, and respond to the ways in which client's experiences impact them. Mitigating this impact allows the work to be sustainable and for human service professionals to be able to provide the highest levels of care. This training covers the scope and impact of trauma and provides and in-depth understanding of the toll that working with people who have been through trauma has on human service professionals through vicarious and direct exposures, as well as acknowledging that rates of early adversity for those who go into this work tend to be higher than in other fields. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own understanding, history, and methods for coping, and to consider ways to address barriers to engaging in self-care on a personal, systemic and societal levels, so that they may remain able to provide optimum levels of intervention.