Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Secondary Trauma for Agency Staff
The purpose of this module is to teach mental health professionals about the reality of secondary trauma and how to prevent it. As well as explain what makes secondary trauma different.
The Trauma-Informed Approach, Trauma, and Secondary Trauma
This course provides a discussion of these three topics and how all three relate to providing a proper level of care for clients that have suffered trauma. The specific differences between all three subjects will also be provided to participants of this course to help identify the warning signs of secondary trauma in the workplace. This course will also help define secondary trauma for behavioral health professionals.
Preventing Secondary Trauma
This course has been designed to provide the participants with strategies and best practices for preventing secondary trauma for agency staff. This course will also provide the participants with personal and organizational self-care tactics for those staff members who may be showing signs of secondary trauma.
Common Elements of Secondary Trauma
The final section of this course provides insight into the common elements of secondary trauma including the potential causes of secondary trauma for agency staff. This section also includes potential strategies for secondary trauma avoidance and care for those staff members who may be suffering from secondary trauma.
A supportive work environment with evidence-based practices along with self-care habits can prevent multiple relapses in secondary trauma.
- Differentiate between trauma-informed approach, trauma, and secondary trauma.
- Develop strategies to prevent secondary trauma, as well as self-care approaches.
- Identify common elements of secondary trauma that affect agency staff.
Colleen Jasper
For nearly 20 years, Colleen Jasper has been heading the Office of Consumer Relations within the Michigan Department of Community Health. She has overseen the organization and implementation of Consumer Conferences for over 500 individuals from across the state. As head of Consumer Relations in Lansing, she oversees the network of 56 Drop-In centers around the state. Colleen aids management, current issues, board decisions, and financial funding requirements throughout these Drop-in centers. Colleen also oversees the Upper Peninsula Consumer Conference. She organizes and supervises statewide staff and consumer events that highlight the various issues facing health consumers in Michigan today.
Colleen is the Co-Chari of the PISC Trauma Subcommittee. She directs the implementation of trauma training initiatives for adults in the CMHSP system. She is devoted to trauma throughout the healthcare industry. She is an expert and has developed modules in Trauma Informed Care and Trauma Self-Assessment for CMHSPs and their provider network. Colleen has dedicated many years to advancing the awareness of Trauma throughout the healthcare community.
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The module experience was a learning tool to further good practice in my work environment."
