This comprehensive three-session online training provides mental health professionals with essential knowledge and practical tools for understanding trauma, building resilience, and preventing professional burnout while working in trauma-informed environments. Participants will explore evidence-based approaches to stress management, resilience building, and self-care practices specifically designed for helping professionals.
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and other helping professionals working with trauma-exposed populations
Level of Course: advanced beginner/intermediate
Educational Objectives
This webinar will teach the participant to
- Identify and explain the physiological and psychological components of stress and trauma responses in both clients and professionals
- Apply the BASIC PH model and SEE FAR CBT model to assess and strengthen resilience factors in clinical practice
- Recognize signs and symptoms of secondary traumatization, compassion fatigue, and professional burnout
- Implement evidence-based grounding and self-regulation techniques for both personal and professional use
- Integrate trauma-informed principles into organizational practices and professional development planning
Syllabus
Session One: Understanding Stress and Trauma Fundamentals (2 CEUs)
- Stress response systems, psychological and physiological impacts
- Trauma definitions, types, and timeline considerations of trauma and PTSD
- Psychoeducation on adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms
- Introduction to trauma-informed care principles
Session Two: Building Resilience and Managing Ongoing Trauma (2 CEUs)
- BASIC PH model for crisis intervention and resilience
- SEE FAR CBT model for crisis intervention and resilience
- Intergenerational trauma patterns and resilience factors
- Shared traumatic reality and ongoing trauma exposure
- Post-traumatic growth concepts and applications
- Creating therapeutic safe spaces and identifying triggers
- Practical grounding and self-regulation techniques
Session Three: Supporting Professional Helpers (2 CEUs)
- Secondary traumatization and compassion fatigue recognition
- Balancing compassion satisfaction with professional sustainability
- Boundary management in helping relationships
- Value-based practice and meaning-making
- Vicarious post-traumatic growth potential
- Comprehensive self-care planning
