Shiota Health Communications Professional Development Webinars, Sept. 2023 & Feb. 2024 Bearing Witness: Coping with Secondary Trauma and Moral Distress, Parts 1 & 2

Slide Decks

February 2024 Session

September 2023 Session

Other Resources I Recommend

Self-Tests for Secondary Trauma Exposure & Mental Wellbeing:

• Professional Quality of Life Scale

• Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale

• Self-care at work and in your personal life questionnaires (excerpts from Resilience, Balance, and Meaning: Supporting our Lives and our Work in High-Stress, Trauma-Exposed Workplaces)

• Secondary Traumatic Stress-Informed Organization Scale

• The Mental Health Continuum

• The Self-Compassion Test

Helping Others in Distress:

• Where There is Violence, There is Resistance: Response-Based Practices

• Mental Health First Aid actions

• Canada Suicide Prevention Service

• The Awkward Conversation (video)

• Look Listen Link (video)

  Workplace Mental Health:

• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health: Leadership, Organizational, and Employee resources

• Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions by Brian C. Miller

Caregiving:

• Ontario Caregiver Organization

• Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence

• AgingCare peer support forum

• More support orgs (parents, family members, etc.)

Self-Care & Community Care:

• Feet on the Floor (video)

• Do Nothing for 2 Minutes (video)

• When the Body Says No: the Hidden Costs of Stress by Dr. Gabor Mate (book)

• A Simple Exercise to Ease Despair by Dr. Peter Levine (video)

• The ABCs of Self-Care by Indigenous Youth Wellness Program (video)

• The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci K Haines (book)

• Here We Are, Amazingly Alive In the Work by Dr. Cathy Richardson and Dr. Vikki Reynolds (journal article - click the PDF button to download the full text)

• Caring for Yourself in the Face of Difficult Work pocket card

• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David A. Treleaven (book)

• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (book)

• The Age of Overwhelm and Trauma Stewardship (books) by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky

Boundaries:

• This is How I Protect My Energy by Nedra Glover Tawwab (video)

• Disappoint Someone Today by Francoise Mathieu (article)

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace and The Set Boundaries Workbook by Nedra Glover Tawwab (books)

• The Better Boundaries Workbook by Sharon Martin (book)

• The Empath’s Survival Guide by Dr. Judith Orloff (book)

• Empowered Boundaries by Christien Storm (book)

• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (book)