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Hope for the Heavy Heart: Recognizing and Healing Secondary Traumatic Stress
A variety of reflective activities will facilitate participants’ exploration of what STS is and is not. In this collaborative space, we will consider how to mitigate the impact of STS for ourselves and supervisees and find hope amid the suffering.
Read MoreMoral Injury in the Helping Fields
We will explore the concept of moral injury, the damage inflicted on one's conscience when one perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress their moral compass.
Read MoreHow Mindfulness Can Support the Therapist, Enhance the Therapeutic Process and Encourage Change and Healing in the Client
When mindfulness is integrated into clinical practice it can support therapist self-care, strengthen clinical skills and enhance the therapeutic relationship. It also offers concrete skills that clients can learn to…
Read MoreBe Here Now: Self-Care During a Pandemic
Be Here Now- Self-Care During a Pandemic PPT Depression, anxiety, substance use and drug overdoses have increased dramatically during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mental health and addiction professionals are…
Read MoreRecovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community
The Center for Practice Transformation and the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series is…
Read MoreBearing Witness: Traumatic Stress and the Helping Professional
Participants will learn to identify and monitor indicators and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress conditions and their impact. Participants will also learn to recognize important differences among vicarious…
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