Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma in Providers Who Treat Veterans
Friday, October 22, 2021
10:00AM - 11:00AM PDT
with Heidi Kraft, Ph.D. Powered by Psych/Armor, this webinar provides a deeper understanding of the effects of burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue on health professionals, working with patients who have suffered traumatic experiences.
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 1 CE Credit (Applied at NASW)
Cost: Registration is now closed. Contact RVP staff for further assistance.
Free to RVP Volunteers, Vet Center and VA Staff
$29 for Other Community Providers
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
Navy combat Veteran and clinical psychologist Dr. Heidi Kraft will draw from military and clinical experience in her discussion of compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma through the use of storytelling. This webinar aims to provide a deeper understanding of the effects of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue on health professionals, especially those working with patients who have suffered traumatic experiences. Dr. Kraft discusses the concept of shared trauma and how it relates to medical and mental healthcare of service members and Veterans. Finally, she describes strategies for self-care that can be used by providers working with patients who have experienced trauma, and how compassion fatigue can turn into compassion satisfaction. This webinar is designed for healthcare professionals who treat military service members and Veteran-connected patients. That includes any mental health or primary care providers wishing to work more effectively with their Veteran patients to promote better patient understanding and culturally-informed care.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
- Define burnout, compassion stress, and compassion fatigue.
- Discuss secondary or vicarious trauma and where we might see it in providers.
- Describe the concept of shared trauma and its pros and cons.
- Explain three strategies to help turn compassion fatigue into compassion satisfaction and lead to resilient providers.
CE Faculty
Heidi Squier Kraft received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UC San Diego/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in 1996. She joined the Navy during her internship at Duke University Medical Center and went on to serve as both a flight and clinical psychologist. Her active duty assignments included the Naval Safety Center, the Naval Health Research Center and Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL. While on flight status, she flew in nearly every aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory, including more than 100 hours in the F/A-18 Hornet, primarily with Marine Corps squadrons. In February 2004, she deployed to western Iraq for seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company, when her boy and girl twins were 15-months-old. RULE NUMBER TWO is a memoir of that experience. Dr. Kraft left active duty in 2005, after nine years in the Navy. She currently serves as Chief Clinical Officer at Psych/Armor Institute, a national non-profit that provides free online education for those who live with, care for, and work with military Veterans. She is frequently invited to speak at conferences and panels on combat stress, stigma and caring for the caregiver. She is a lecturer at San Diego State University, where she teaches stress, trauma and the psychological experience of combat, as well as Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Infant and Child Development. Dr. Kraft lives in San Diego with her husband Mike, a former Marine Harrier pilot, and her twins Brian and Meg, who have no memory of their mother’s time in Iraq.
Sponsored by
The Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative (RALI) of Oregon is a community health coalition, with a focus on raising awareness of opioid addiction. RALI Oregon represents communities across the state that have been impacted by this crisis including employers, veterans, children, rural Oregonians, health care providers, and law enforcement.
In Partnership with
PsychArmor® is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers critical resources to Americans so they can effectively engage with and support military service members, Veterans, and their families by providing online training videos delivered by national subject matter experts who are fiercely committed to educating the civilian community about military culture – at no cost to the learner. Additionally, our Support Center provides follow-up coaching to reinforce the knowledge conveyed in our courses.
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503-954-2259
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