Akamas
Experience Learning
DEVELOPING STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS SECONDARY TRAUMA
Written By
Kate Cairns
Learning Outcomes
To achieve this unit a learner must:
- Analyse the needs, in relation to prevention and treatment of secondary traumatic stress disorders, of the network supporting a traumatised child
- Produce a strategic plan to reduce the incidence of secondary traumatic stress disorders in the network supporting a traumatised child
- Devise a strategic plan to improve service provision for the treatment of secondary stress disorders in the network supporting a traumatised child
Content and Structure
MODULE 1
Prevention and treatment of secondary traumatic stress disorders in the network supporting a traumatised child
Secondary traumatic stress as a model for making sense of what happens in the care of traumatised children
- Defining secondary traumatic stress
- Burnout, prolonged duress, and secondary traumatic stress
- Signs and indicators of secondary stress
- Signs of developing disorder
- The impact of secondary traumatic stress disorder on individuals
- The impact on the whole network supporting the traumatised child
Prevention of secondary traumatic stress disorder
- Training: understanding the disorder; increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability; enhancing stress management skills; the benefits of professional development and personal development
- Support: informal support including a knowledgeable network and a trusted challenger; formal support including peer groups, mentoring, and telephone help
- Supervision: formal professional supervision; peer supervision; performance monitoring and appraisal; professional consultancy
Treatment of secondary traumatic stress disorder
- Recovering physiological self-management: recognising that treatment is needed; recovering the ability to relax; self-monitoring to prevent recurrence
- Psychological therapies: treatment for cognitive distortions, behavioural problems or relationship difficulties; therapy for triggered responses to childhood trauma
- Other therapeutic interventions: specific treatments for traumatic stress disorders ; treatment for physical illnesses resulting from the stress; family therapy; alternative therapies
MODULE 2
Reducing the incidence of secondary traumatic stress disorders in the network supporting a traumatised child
Training
- Auditing training needs and wishes
- Identifying and evaluating resources available for training
- Preparing a training plan
Support
- Identifying and evaluating sources of informal support
- Assessing formal support structures
- Preparing a plan to improve support throughout the network
Supervision
- Assessing resources available for formal professional supervision
- Identifying opportunities for peer supervision
- Identifying and evaluating consultancy services available
- Preparing a plan to improve supervision throughout the network
MODULE 3
Service provision for the treatment of secondary stress disorders in the network supporting a traumatised child
Recovering physiological self- management
- Enabling and encouraging the recognition of need
- Assessing individual need and the effectiveness of remedies
- Enabling and encouraging self-monitoring for prevention of recurrence
Psychological therapies
- Enabling and encouraging recognition of the need for therapy
- Identifying and evaluating resources and services available
- Preparing a strategic plan to influence availability of services
Other therapeutic interventions
- Enabling and encouraging appropriate selection of treatment strategy
- Identifying resources and services available
- Preparing a strategic plan to encourage the development of a range of services in the treatment of secondary traumatic stress
Level: 4
