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Resilience Project

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Supportive Practices for Supervisors


Description
In this course, we will learn more about the signs and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress in staff and how to know when a staff person needs support related to their direct service work. We will also discuss strategies to respond as supervisors and support that can be put in place to buffer stress exposure for our teams.

The participants will be able to:
• Demonstrate understanding of secondary traumatic stress
• Identify signs and symptoms that may or may not show up in staff
• Analyze/decide when intervention or support is needed
• Describe various strategies for intervention and support
• Apply strategies to support staff who are experiencing STS

  30 mins |   SCORM |   Videos

Program: Resilience Project

Content
  • How to Navigate this Training
  • Required Training
  • Interactive Presentation (SCORM)
  • Optional: Videos and Resources Used in the Presentation
  • Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion. Their Pain.
  • Supervision: How Supervisors Can Combat STS
  • Stress Warning Signs and Symptoms (.pdf)
  • What About You (.pdf)
  • STS Core Competencies Self-Rating Tool (.pdf)
  • Using the STS Core Competencies (.pdf)
  • Optional: Additional Resources
  • Recognizing Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Burnout in the Workplace
  • What is Resilience? Why is it important?
  • Suggested Readings
  • Training Evaluation
  • STS for Supervisors Training Evaluation
  • For any issues or concerns, please contact msullivan@healthfederation.org
Completion rules
  • You must complete the units "Interactive Presentation (SCORM)"
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
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