1. 915: Taking Care of Yourself: Managing Your Exposure to Traumatic Stress 

2. Welcome to 915: Taking Care of Yourself: Managing Your Exposure to Traumatic Stress 
Read Handout #2 (Setting the Foundation)
Complete your name tent.
Name (Center)d
Agency (Top-Left Corner)
Number of years at agency (Top-Left Corner)
WIIFM (Bottom-Left Corner)
One thing you do to take care of yourself (Bottom-Right Corner)

3. Identify the symptoms of traumatic stress; and
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Recognize traumatic stress as an occupational hazard in the child welfare profession;
Identify the symptoms of traumatic stress; and
Explore strategies to manage traumatic stress and promote resiliency.

4. Welcome and Introduction Traumatic Stress: An Occupational Hazard
The Symptoms of Traumatic Stress
Strategies for Managing Traumatic Stress and Promoting Resiliency
Summary and Evaluations
Agenda

5. Characteristics of the Best Resource Parents

6. Caregivers Video
How can empathy and engagement skills be a resource parent’s greatest assets and at the same time be great liabilities?

7. Unmanaged traumatic stress has detrimental effects on us, our agencies, and those that we love.

8. True or False?
When a resource parent displays signs of traumatic stress, it indicates it is time to stop being a resource parent.
FALSE

9. True or False?
Resource parents who have been exposed to traumatic stress are typically less effective resource parents.
FALSE

10. Don’t Let Ideas Get Away!

11. Prevalence of Traumatic Stress in Child Welfare Work
About 55% of child welfare professionals have at least one core symptom cluster (group of symptoms) of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Almost 16% of workers meet the criteria for PTSD.
(Bride, 2007)

12. Which Symptoms Do I Have?

13. Don’t Let Ideas Get Away!

14. Resilience
A person’s ability to “bounce back” from hardship or a difficult situation.
(ACS-NYU, Children’s Trauma Institute, 2011).

15. Strategies for Managing Trauma
Change environment (or the external circumstances that are provoking stress and trauma reaction)
Change yourself (or internal locus of control)  
Search for and accept support
Headington Institute, 2011

16. Managing Physical Responses to Trauma

17. Managing Cognitive Responses to Trauma

18. Self-care
Self-care is a skillful attitude that needs practice throughout the day. (Mahoney, 2003)

19. Don’t Let Ideas Get Away!

20. Identify the symptoms of traumatic stress; and
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Recognize traumatic stress as an occupational hazard in the child welfare profession;
Identify the symptoms of traumatic stress; and
Explore strategies to manage traumatic stress and promote resiliency.

21. Questions and Answers

22. Create Your Action Plan and Use it Often!

23. Thank You!