Supporting students through their challenges can be deeply meaningful, but it can also leave educators emotionally impacted. Participants will learn to recognize the signs of secondary traumatic stress (STS), understand how it develops, and learn practical tools to protect educators wellbeing while continuing to care for your students.
Who is the course designed for
The course has been designed for educators, education support staff, and paraprofessionals who deliver services directly or indirectly to children, adolescents, and teachers in the public, private, and international educational settings. Relevant professionals include teachers/educators, school counselors, adjustment counselors, child-care staff, college counselors, education-related health professionals, educational psychologists, juvenile detention and youth prison educators, and social workers.
Organizations include independent/private, public and international preschools, middle schools, elementary schools, high-schools, colleges, residential settings, juvenile detention centers, youth prisons, and children’s homes.
Course duration & pace of learning
✓ 9 hours / 9 lessons
✓ Self-paced learning
✓ Recommended over 9 weeks.
Course availability
✓ 12 months
Course certification
✓ Following course completion, click on the link to download your Certificate of Course Completion with the stated number of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.
Course credits
✓ Completion of this course course provides 9 points towards the purchase of future courses.
Course objectives
The course aims help teachers define and understand the nature of STS, the extent of the problem, and the risk and protective factors involved, as well as provide evidence-based strategies for educators and support staff.
By the end of course students will learn the following:
- A pragmatic definition of STS in educators
- The extent of STS and why educators are so affected by STS.
- The signs of STS and ways to assess STS in educators
- Organizational care and self-care strategies to prevent STS
- How best to respond to educator STS
- Cultural safety strategies in the prevention & response to educator STS
Participants will identify their own self-care strategies & draft a school wide STS prevention & reduction plan. Where this lesson is taken with the lessons on burnout & vicarious trauma, students will be able to develop an integrated prevention & reduction plan for secondary traumatic stress, burnout & vicarious trauma.
OpenAI ChatGPT
Students are advised to utilize ChatGPT to ask questions throughout lessons. To ask your questions, open the ChatGPT search page (click on the link).
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