Course Description

This course helps educators understand compassion fatigue and working to support students in a challenging time. This course will help educators recognize symptoms commonly associated with compassion fatigue and its impacts. This course will help educators to promote the calm, relaxed, but enlivened classroom environment that children need to learn. This training will also help educators to be more effective at reducing internal stress, conflict and developing more positive ways of relating in the classroom, which can contribute to higher levels of job satisfaction.

Course Objectives

• Understanding vicarious trauma

• Recognizing symptoms of vicarious trauma

• Practices for self-care

• Developing a self-care plan