Human services professionals regularly support individuals and families experiencing trauma, instability and complex systemic barriers. Over time, this work can contribute to burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma and moral distress. This interactive training provides participants with a shared language for understanding these experiences and recognizing how they can affect personal well-being, professional engagement and relationships with clients.
Through reflection, realistic scenarios and skills practice, participants will explore brief stress-management techniques, strategies for recovering from challenging interactions, and approaches to maintaining healthy professional boundaries. Participants will leave with an individualized sustainability plan containing realistic practices to strengthen resilience, support well-being and remain connected to the purpose of their work.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, moral distress and moral injury.
- Recognize common signs of burnout and secondary traumatic stress and describe how they can affect well-being, professional engagement and relationships with clients.
- Apply brief, practical strategies for managing stress, recovering from challenging client interactions and maintaining healthy professional boundaries.
- Develop an individualized sustainability plan that includes one or two realistic practices for supporting well-being, resilience, and continued engagement in the work.