[The Network] Register now for Building Resilience to Secondary Trauma, August 30

Register now for Building Resilience to Secondary Trauma, August 30, 2012, 9:15am to 12:15pm at Aurora Mental Health, 1290 Chambers, Aurora, 80011

Who should attend? Workers and supervisors whose agencies serve a client population with a high incidence of traumatic stress.  For online registration, please visit Building Resilience to Secondary Trauma.   Eligible for 3 Hours CEU.

The emotional costs of caring for clients with histories of trauma can be significant, including the loss of personal and professional resiliency. Secondary traumatic stress is now recognized as an occupational hazard of providing direct services to populations with histories of trauma. Vicarious trauma involves a transformation that occurs in the inner experience of the human services practitioner as a result of empathetic engagement with a client's traumatic experience.

Workshop objectives are to:

• increase participant knowledge of traumatic stress and its impact on human service workers and their clients;
  
• increase participant knowledge of individual coping skills that can be learned and used by human service workers and their clients to reduce the impact of secondary traumatic stress;
  
• develop a personal action plan to reduce the effects of secondary traumatic stress on participants, their clients and their supervisors;
  
• increase participant understanding of their supervisor's role in mitigating and preventing secondary traumatic stress;
  
• increase participant knowledge of resiliency for both supervisors and staff members;
  

Presenter, Margaret Charlton, PhD, ABPP,  Aurora Mental Health, Intercept Center. I did my graduate training in Clinical Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, receiving my PhD in 1986. I completed board certification through the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology in 2005. I am one of three co-authors of the Colorado volume of the APA book series: Law and Mental Health Professionals. Over the years, I have worked in a variety of settings, including private practice. I currently work for Intercept Center at Aurora Mental Health, where the population we work with is exclusively youth with mental illnesses and co-existing developmental disabilities, most of whom also have trauma histories. Because the children we work with have such extensive trauma histories, working with them can take a significant toll on clinicians. Developing ways of managing the stress experienced by our staff led me to my interest in helping professionals to manage the effects of secondary trauma.

See the Network's other trainings and programs online along with information on membership, our resource listserve and directory, and updated info in human services via our blog, calendar, and members-only online resources. Paid members of the Human Services Network of Colorado receive a discount on registration for paid trainings.  Memberships start at $45 for one year of benefits.

John Dandurand, Executive Director

The Human Services Network of Colorado
720-252-3628
www.thenetwork-co.org

john.dandurand@thenetwork-co.org

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