Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue in Clinical Practice
This course helps mental health professionals recognize, assess, and address the occupational hazards of trauma work, including vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and burnout. Using evidence-based frameworks including the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) and constructivist self-development theory, clinicians will build concrete self-assessment and self-care strategies alongside understanding of systemic and organizational factors that influence practitioner wellness.
2
CE Hours
3
Modules
15
Quiz Questions
1
Est. Minutes
What you'll learn
- Distinguish vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and burnout as related but distinct constructs
- Apply the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) to assess practitioner wellness
- Describe constructivist self-development theory as a framework for understanding trauma work's occupational effects
- Identify evidence-based self-assessment and self-care strategies for clinicians engaged in trauma work
- Identify systemic and organizational factors that influence practitioner wellness and their clinical implications
Who it's for
Licensed mental health professionals (LPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, NCCs)
Approval & credit
CounselorReady is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #7760). This course awards 2 NBCC-approved CE hours; a certificate is issued on completion. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CounselorReady is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.