SW 252 U3 UC UC05    

Helping the Helper Secondary Trauma   1.00   11/05/2025   12/13/2025   Web/On-line Course

The focus of this course will be understanding the ways that helping professionals can be impacted through their work with trauma survivors, and how they can proactively prevent and address the effects of indirect trauma. Students will learn the definitions and prevalence of secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout, risk factors for these conditions, and signs and symptoms. Research on organizational factors that increase risk for indirect trauma, as well as organizational protective factors that promote staff well-being, will be explored. Using principles of trauma-informed care, students will develop a plan for individual self-care and organization-level policies and procedures that aim to reduce the impact of indirect trauma and cultivate an organizational culture of trauma-responsive care and compassion.

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