Impacts of Indirect Trauma, Part 2

Impacts of Indirect Trauma: Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout
Part 2: Burnout & Other Impacts of Trauma

February 7, 2025
10:00am – 1:00pm
3.0 CEs for LCSW/LSW and LCPC/LPC
$30 for CEs, $10 for no CEs
Webinar

Part 2 of this interactive series is designed to continue to expand helping professionals’ knowledge of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), Vicarious Trauma (VT), Compassion Fatigue (CF), and Burnout. This training aims to increase participants’ awareness of these concepts as well as how to identify techniques and methods to address the impact these have on personal and professional well-being. This course aims to further identify protective factors and prevention strategies to help support individuals in their daily lives. Register for Part 1 HERE.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize indicators, risk factors, and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout.
2. Identify protective factors, prevention techniques, and coping methods to reduce the impact of trauma exposure or chronic stress.
3. Apply prevention and coping strategies learned to support ongoing personal and professional well-being.

Registration Options:

If you do NOT need CEUs for LCSW/LSW or LCPC/LPC, register via the link below:

NON-CEU REGISTRATION

If you DO need CEUs for LCSW/LSW or LCPC/LPC, register via the link below:

CEU REGISTRATION

Amber Estes currently serves as a Clinical Quality Review Specialist with the Provider Assistance and Training Hub (PATH) at the University of Illinois School of Social Work.  Prior to joining the PATH team, Amber worked for over 16 years at a residential treatment center that served adolescent males ages 12 to 21.  While in this setting, Amber worked in several different roles including; direct care, supervisor, and therapist.  Amber is trained in trauma specific therapy techniques such as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.  She has extensive experience working with youth and families who have experienced complex trauma as well as mentoring and supervising staff who have experienced indirect trauma.

Amber holds a master’s degree in professional counseling from Olivet Nazarene University and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in the state of Illinois.

Ghada Abdalla serves as a Family Advocate Specialist for the School of Social Work PATH Program. She assists in the development and delivery of training for Family Peer Supporters. She helped create an FPS program in CT, and she continues to help create content and improve the quality of the FPS program.

Ghada graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s in Psychology in Egypt. After earning her clinical diploma there, she worked as a psychologist in Egypt for a few years.  She started a non-profit center to help young parents and their children with disabilities. Ghada was a teacher for eight years, and she continued her support for parents in multiple countries, starting with Egypt all the way to the US. She also supported parents in multiple states, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. Ghada recently earned her master’s in social work from UIUC.  Ghada has a lot of lived experience that showed her the resilience that can come from hardships. She enjoys learning and playing with her four children. She is eager to learn and help in any way she can.