Building Resilience: Surviving Secondary Trauma

Course Objectives:

• Explain secondary trauma and examine its role in first responder stress, emotional fatigue, health issues and suicide.
• Identify and interpret how stress and emotional trauma affect the mind and body.
• Define hyper-vigilance and apprise its effect on the first responder.
• Examine and formulate strategies to create mind body connection and build resilience.
• Identify the need and create strategies for self-care.