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Category Archives: Secondary Traumatic Stress
It’s Not Just Bovines Who Chew the Cud
Understanding Rumination
Rumination can be destructive to our work and life when we feel helpless to escape this cycle of repetitive thoughts. In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana TIkasz, and Dr. Jennifer Russel explore the concept of rumination and share strategies to interrupt the cycle.
August 2022
Compassion Fatigue 101
On-Demand Course
Repeated and chronic exposure to large volumes of difficult stories can erode our sense of empathy for others. In this on-demand course, we will explore the "costs of caring" and learn strategies to identify and address compassion fatigue.
October 2021
Breaking Your Heart At Work
A Conversation About Career-Sustaining Practices with Dr. Brian Miller
Dr. Brian Miller is an author, researcher, and trauma clinician. In this conversation, he shares his lessons learned about secondary traumatic stress, career-sustaining practices, his research into the CE-CERT model.
October 2021
Race and Culture Have Everything to Do With It
Intersections of Secondary Traumatic Stress with Racism, Historical Trauma, and other Systems of Oppression
In this CARE4YOU 2021 session, Sandra Chase, Alison Hendricks, and Carmen Rosa Noroña explore how secondary traumatic stress intersects with culture, racism, historical trauma, and other systems of oppression.
June 2021
We Can’t Be Trauma Responsive Without Being STS-Informed
Tools for Organizational Change
What does it mean to be a secondary-trauma informed workplace? In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, Dr. Ginny Sprang explores tools to assess the degree to which a workplace is secondary-trauma-informed.
June 2020