The Cost of Caring: Vicarious Trauma and Mental Health Professionals

Vicarious trauma is a professional liability for counselors and therapists. Immersing yourself day in and day out in the suffering of others can take a toll physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Not only can caring impact clinicians personally, it can also seep into their work with clients and impact their professional efficacy. Therefore, learning to manage vicarious trauma is not only an intervention for the counselor, but also an intervention for work with clients.

Join Rebecca Kase, licensed clinical social worker, registered yoga instructor, and nationally-known professional trainer, for a 2-hour continuing education webinar dedicated to vicarious trauma. Rebecca will lead attendees in exploring the physiology of vicarious trauma, developing awareness of the impact of it, and better understanding how vicarious trauma can impact client outcomes. She will conduct an in-depth review of self-care for behavioral health professionals that goes beyond what a typical vicarious trauma training may teach.

This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Create a definition for what vicarious trauma is and why it matters.
2. Discuss the role of empathy as it relates to experiences of vicarious trauma.
3. Explain how vicarious trauma can impact client outcomes.
4. Identify at least three symptoms of vicarious trauma.
5. Develop a framework for planning strategies to manage and cope with vicarious trauma.

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: This program presents a clinical innovation that combines neuroscience, mindfulness, and concepts from the knowledge base on vicarious trauma and clinician burnout. It is consistent with the ethics code of the American Psychological Association and also has its own established code of ethics as developed by the Association of Comprehensive Psychology, an approved CE Sponsor of the APA.

Declaration of conflicts of interest and commercial support: None.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. To receive CE credit hours for an archived recording, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events are generally considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

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Mental health professionals who are not members can access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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