Preventing and Addressing Vicarious Trauma

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This webinar will focus on understanding the concept of vicarious trauma–or secondary traumatic stress–the impact on helpers who are supporting those impacted by trauma. We'll review definitions, discuss prevention, and talk about what to do when we get overwhelmed.

About the instructor:

Alex Shevrin is a teacher educator through Antioch University New England and Castleton Center for Schools, and an instructor at the Community College of Vermont. She is a former school leader at an alternative therapeutic school, where she supported youth affected by trauma, poverty, and other adverse life experiences. She believes that all students need a safe and caring school environment and that we create this environment through unconditional positive regard for the person and conditional response to the behaviors, recognizing the dynamic and complex lives of our students.

This event fulfills Competency 4 and 5 of Trauma-Conscious Teaching Microcredential