Beating Provider Burnout with Vicarious Resilience, Jenny Hughes, PhD & Sarah Sudhoff (3 hr)
Workshop Description
This three-hour workshop is designed for healthcare providers (e.g. mental health professionals, medical professionals, paraprofessionals, educators, etc.) seeking to deepen their understanding of vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience through an evidence- based lens. Participants will explore research-backed practices for recognizing the effects of trauma work on themselves and their clients/patients, with an emphasis on identifying signs of vicarious trauma along with indicators of vicarious resilience.
This training provides tools to manage the emotional demands of clinical work while enhancing their effectiveness in delivering evidence-based treatments for trauma and PTSD.
Participants will engage in practical exercises, case discussions, and create a personalized resilience plan to ensure that resilience practices are sustainable and applicable to both
their clients/patients and themselves.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Identify three signs and symptoms of vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience
List three evidence-based clinical techniques that foster vicarious Resilience.
Discuss how these methods can be implemented to enhance both provider wellbeing and client/patient outcomes.
Develop a personalized resilience plan that integrates vicarious resilience strategies into their ongoing professional development
FORMAT: Workshop with PowerPoint presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
Jenny Hughes, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma and PTSD. She holds multiple faculty appointments and practices Brainspotting, EMDR, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. As the founder of the BRAVE Trauma Therapist Collective, Dr. Hughes helps trauma therapists be human again as they learn how to manage vicarious trauma and enhance vicarious resilience together. She is the author of The PTSD Recovery Workbook and Triggers to Glimmers: A Vicarious Resilience Journal and Workbook.
Sarah Sudhoff is a Houston-based artist, educator, and nonprofit leader whose work sits at the intersection of visual arts, community engagement, and social practice. She is the Founder and Director of Ramona Residency, the first artist residency in Texas dedicated to artist mothers, and Co-Founder of Throughline Collective, an artist-run space in Houston. With over two decades of experience in photography, arts administration, and higher education, Sarah has held leadership roles at institutions including the Houston Center for Photography and the Texas Photographic Society. Her work has been recognized by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Houston Arts Alliance, and Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50, among others. She holds an MFA in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin.