Understanding Vicarious Trauma and Strategies for Self-Care
Presented by Bina Parekh, Ph.D.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
1:30-4:30pm PT/ 3:30-6:30pm CT/ 4:30-7:30pm ET
Event held online via Zoom
When attended in full, this program offers 3.0 CEs for Psychologists, 3.0 IL CEUs for Counselors and Social Workers, 3.0 CA BBS CEUs for Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists, 3.0 NBCC Clock Hours
Program Description
Mental Health professionals routinely provide care to individuals with significant trauma histories. Additionally, mental
health professional are often bombarded by large caseload that can result in burnout. The incessant responsiveness
and empathic regard that is required when giving care to trauma clients can result in the therapist being traumatized
and feeling overwhelmed. This presentation will focus on vicarious trauma and how it manifests both as burnout and
compassion fatigue. An understanding of vicarious trauma will be discussed based on the seminal research of
Pearlman & Saakitvne. Additionally, vicarious trauma will be linked to collective trauma. The conceptualization of
collective trauma will be based on the formulations of sociologist Kai Erikson. The presentation will also highlight the
symptoms of vicarious trauma and ways to assess for vicarious trauma by using specific empirically validated
instruments like the Malasch Burnout Inventory, Secondary Trauma Stress Scale, and The Dispositional Resilience
Scale. Moreover, information will be delineated to underscore those mental health workers who are most at risk for
suffering from vicarious trauma.
A second objective of the presentation is to focus on ways to navigate the effects of impactful and stressful clinical work.
Examining various self-care techniques to manage burnout and psychological distress will be addressed. Specific
barriers to self-care will be examined and ways to navigate those barriers will be explored. The presentation will be
focus on ways to expand self-care practices while highlighting the self-compassion work by Kristin Neff. The discussion
will focus on ways to enhance self-compassion skills and mindfulness activities that focus on grounding and decreasing
exhaustion. The overall goal of this presentation is to give practitioners tools that can be used to combat the ill effects of
vicarious trauma and burnout resulting from the demands of clinical care
Objectives
After attending this intermediate level program, participants will be able to
1) Describe the theoretical difference between burnout and vicarious trauma within the therapeutic milieu.
2) Utilize clinical tools to assess and evaluate the presence of vicarious trauma.
3) Describe how vicarious resilience and vicarious trauma can be viewed as a positive aspect of trauma work.
4) Describe self-compassion skills that can be used as self-care techniques.
Program Standards and Goal
This program meets APA’s continuing education Standard 1.3:
Program content focuses on topics related to psychological practice, education, or research other than application of psychological assessment and/or intervention methods that are supported by contemporary scholarship grounded in established research procedures.
This program meets APA’s continuing education Goal 1:
Program is relevant to psychological practice, education, and/or science.
References
Lewis, M., & King, D. (2019). Teaching self-care: The utilization of self-care in social work
practicum to prevent compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social
Environment, 29(1), 96-105.
Li, Z., Ge, J., Yang, M., Feng, J., Qiao, M., Jiang, R., Bi, J., Zhan, G., Xu, X., Wang, L., Zhou, Q., Zhou, C., Pan, Y., Liu,
S., Zhang, H., Yang, J., Zhu, B., Hu, Y., Hashimoto, K., Jia, Y.,Yang, C.(2020). Vicarious traumatization in the general
public, members, and non-members of medical teams aiding in COVID-19 control. Brain, behavior, and immunity,
S0889-1591(20)30309-3.
Michalchuk, S., & Martin, S. L. (2019). Vicarious resilience and growth in psychologists who work with trauma survivors:
An interpretive phenomenological analysis. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 50(3), 145-154.
Pack, M. (2014). Vicarious resilience: A multilayered model of stress and trauma. Affilia, 29(1),18-29.
Continuing Education
Target AudienceAll mental health disciplines as well as graduate students are welcome to participate
Psychologists: This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 3.0 continuing education credits. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions, concerns and any complaints to [email protected]. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest.
Counselors/Clinical Counselors: This program, when attended in its entirety, is available 3.0 hours of continuing education. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) to provide continuing education programming for counselors and clinical counselors. License Number: 197.000159
Social Workers: This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 3.0 hours of continuing education. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) to provide continuing education programming for social workers. License Number: 159.001036
MFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs: Course meets the qualifications for 3.0 hour of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. If you are licensed outside of California please check with your local licensing agency to to determine if they will accept these CEUs. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to offer continuing education programming for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is an accredited or approved postsecondary institution that meets the requirements set forth in Sections 4980.54(f)(1), 4989.34, 4996.22(d)(1), or 4999.76(d) of the Code.
Participation Certificate. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is able to provide students and other participants who simply wish to have documentation of their attendance at the program a participation certificate.
Non Psychologists. Most licensing boards accept Continuing Education Credits sponsored by the American Psychological Association but non-psychologists are recommended to consult with their specific state-licensing board to ensure that APA-sponsored CE is acceptable.
Disclaimer for all programs:
If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions, concerns and any complaints to [email protected]. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest.
*Participants must attend 100% of the program in order to obtain a Certificate of Attendance.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) to provide continuing education programming for counselors and clinical counselors (License Number: 197.000159) and social workers (License Number: 159.001036).
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to offer continuing education programming for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is an accredited or approved postsecondary institution that meets the requirements set forth in Sections 4980.54(f)(1), 4989.34, 4996.22(d)(1), or 4999.76(d) of the Code.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 3036. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Bina Parekh, Ph.D., Associate Department Chair/Professor
Bina Parekh, Ph.D. is the Associate Department Chair at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP) in the Department of Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.), Irvine Campus. Dr. Bina Parekh received her M.A. in Community Psychology at New York University and completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and minor emphasis in Biostatistics
at Loma Linda University. Dr. Parekh completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente in Milpitas, California specializing in general psychiatry, trauma, behavioral medicine, and chemical dependency. She has served as a project coordinator for several large grants at the Behavioral Health Institute at San Diego State University (SDSU) and acted as a clinical supervisor in the joint doctoral program between SDSU and U.C. San Diego. She has published several peer-reviewed papers in the areas of addiction medicine, psychological assessment, and diversity. Dr. Parekh has worked as a pain psychologist within a multidisciplinary treatment team in the Chronic Pain Program at Kaiser Permanente, Orange. Her clinical focus includes trauma specifically working with survivors of sexual abuse and combat exposed military personnel. She has experience applying evidence-based models of treatment for survivors of trauma.
Please Visit the Zoom Link to register for this event: https://tcsedsystem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rH2kUcv-Qoieqx8MhJ_Hsg