OOC: Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Workers
Course Description:
This course is part of a 23-course curricula series developed by expert healthcare professionals to educate a variety of disciplines about drug addiction and its impact. The Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Workers course provides an in-depth look at secondary traumatic stress (STS) and it's impact on child welfare workers. This course is designed to educate child welfare workers about how the demands of their job can influence their response to trauma and how to utilize resiliency as a key to improving their response.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and how it occurs.
2. Understand how the demands of the child welfare position impacts their response to STS.
3. Identify the signs and symptoms of STS.
4. Understand practical ways to build resiliency and how it can improve responses to trauma.
Continued Education:
- RN/LPN Contact CE: 1.0
- Counselor CPEs: 1.0
- Social Work CPEs: 1.0
- Psychologists MCEs: 1.0
- Chemical Dependency CEs: 1.0 (TR1 & PR1)
Training Material
- General Course Guidelines
- Course Recertification Guidelines
- PLEASE READ - FIXES FOR STUCK COURSES
- Course Instructors
- OOC: Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Worker's Part 1
- OOC: Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Worker's Part 2
- OOC: Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Worker's Part 3
- OOC: Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Worker's Part 4
- Test: Secondary Trauma for Child Welfare Worker's
- Survey
