The COVID-19 pandemic has caused behavioral health practitioners to be exposed to material in their sessions that may lead to vicarious traumatization. Exposure to other people’s trauma can result in a profound shift in the practitioner’s worldview. There are many names for this process including compassion fatigue, trauma exposure response, secondary traumatic response, or vicarious trauma.
To address these concerns in the Louisiana behavioral health workforce, the Center for Evidence is sponsoring a three-part Behavioral Health Wellness series. This initiative is supported by the Office of Behavioral Health’s COVID-19 emergency SAMHSA grant.
Session 1: Self-Care for the Helper During a Crisis
Session 2: Secondary Impact of Trauma
Session 3: Longer Impact of Collective Trauma, Disasters, and Grief (live session March 16th)
This series will be facilitated by Dr. Stephen Phillippi, LCSW, CCFC, the Founding Director of the Center for Evidence to Practice, Institute for Public Health and Justice, and Program Chair of the Behavioral and Community Health Sciences program at LSUHSC School of Public Health.
Recommended Audience: Louisiana behavioral health practitioners.
Estimated Time: 3.0 hours (1 hour per session)
CEHs: This course has been reviewed and pre-approved for 3.0 Continuing Education Hours (CEHs). Upon successful course completion, your certificate containing your CEHs will be available for download.
