Details
Product Details
- Section:
- COVID-19 information
- Speaker:
- Lois Ehrmann, PhD, LPC, NCC, CTTS
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 01 Minutes
- Media Type:
- Digital Recordings
CPD
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product.
Objectives
- Explore at least two factors that contribute to the fight, flight, freeze trauma response happening during the pandemic crisis
- Utilize at least three communication strategies and three leadership strategies that are helpful to minimize trauma’s effects on colleagues, employees and clients
Outline
Tempering Stress within the Organization
- Look to where the organization needs to quickly adapt
- The importance of communication
- Avoid defensive routines (Comfort, Yeo and Scheinert, 2019)
- Find the external resources to help in the adaptation process
Finding Your Calm and Helping Your Staff and Clients Find Theirs
- Understand your own fight, flight, freeze response
- Breath work, visualization and personal grounding
- Identify who in your personal life you need
- Moving the calm toward family first, then employee/supervisees and outward toward the clients
Best Practices that are Important Right Now
- How to present what you currently know and what you can and cannot do
- Affirm the ambivalence and lack of certainty
- When employees, supervisees and clients begin to isolate and shut down
- Naming fears and anxiety and being witness to those fears and anxiety
- Reinforce current skills of coping with stress and crisis; teach additional skills
- Tune in to your own ways of self-care and your own spirituality
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Teachers
- School Guidance Counselors
- Case Managers
- School Administrators
- Educational Paraprofessionals
- Nurses
- Speech and Language Pathologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Other helping professionals who work with children
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