Understanding Vicarious Trauma CQUniversity Australia

Overview

This Understanding Vicarious Trauma course offered by CQUniversity Australia allows participants to build knowledge and understanding along with consolidating their learning and exchanging personal insight with colleagues.

Key facts

• Working in a caring profession can take its emotional toll on the practitioner. Assisting and supporting clients may result in a number of challenging interactions and can even result in vicarious trauma. 

• The examination of particular challenges when working with vulnerable clients involves the ability to being attuned to and accepting of emotions in the context of working in human service provision. 

• This requires understanding, addressing and preventing negative outcomes of vicarious trauma. Focus of attention will be on key elements of vicarious trauma and how to manage it effectively. 

• Emotions influence physiological reactions and behaviours, which may result in reduced empathy, which impacts service provision. Therefore, being able to understand, address and prevent vicarious trauma is critically important for everyone working with vulnerable clients.

Career Opportunities

• Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. 

• Upon successful completion of the course, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.