Work Related Stress & Indirect Trauma for Risk Professionals: The Cost of Caring

Risk professionals frequently engage with the traumatic stories of patients, families and health care providers. Individual reactions to this type of trauma exposure vary and include a wide spectrum of emotional, physical, spiritual and cognitive responses. This session will help attendees gain an understanding of how secondary and vicarious trauma develops and how it effects well-being. The neurophysiology of the stress and trauma response will also be covered. A variety of trauma informed techniques and methods to help individuals process traumatic experiences will also be shared.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review and understand definitions and differences between vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, and burnout.

2. Discuss risk factors, impacts and warning signs of indirect trauma. 

3. Identify trauma-informed coping strategies to build your own resiliency.

Speakers:

Dawn England, MPH, began her health care career at Children’s Hospital Boston in 2007 as a quality improvement coordinator. She's spent the last decade and a half directing quality and patient safety programs at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and University of MN Physicians (UMP). In 2020, Dawn joined the UMP Clinical Risk Management Department and now directs the Communication and Resolution Program. She has an MPH in Epidemiology from Boston University and has recently completed her MA in Counseling Psychology. Part time, she works as a pre-licensed therapist incorporating mindfulness and trauma informed yoga into her work. Ultimately she would like to focus her therapeutic practice on supporting individuals who work in health care and on patients/providers who have experienced medical trauma.

Anne Williams-Wengerd, MA, LP, PhD, is a masters-level licensed psychologist who has worked as a clinician, researcher, and educator in the field of psychology and mental health. Anne recently completed her PhD in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota where she wrote her dissertation on grief in parents of adults experiencing early psychosis. She has presented her research at both national and international conferences, and has provided training and education on a wide variety of topics including crisis intervention, suicide assessment, ambiguous loss, engaging families in mental health treatment, and early psychosis. Anne currently works as a family clinician on a team that serves individuals experiencing early psychosis. She is passionate about the importance of approaching mental health treatment from a systems perspective by working across disciplines to support individual and family resilience in challenging situations.

Member: $39.00
Non-Member: $99.00

Event Schedule by Time Zone: 
Pacific: 10 AM to 11 AM
Mountain: 11 AM to 12 PM
Central: 12 PM to 1 PM
Eastern: 1 PM to 2 PM