Name: FULLY BOOKED: Vicarious Trauma - The Cost of Caring
Start: 2025-09-23T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-09-23T10:30:00+08:00
Location: WA Centre for Rural Health

FULLY BOOKED: Vicarious Trauma - The Cost of Caring

***𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗗***
𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙚: Tuesday 23 September 2025
𝙑𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙚: WA Centre for Rural Health, 167 Fitzgerald Street, Geraldton
𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚: 9am to 10.30am
𝙍𝙎𝙑𝙋: [email protected] or 9956 0200
𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩: FREE (limited spaces, bookings essential)
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨
This highly interactive 1.5hr workshop involves:
• Identify the differences between burnout/stress, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma (VT)
• The impact of VT on health, education, and welfare workers
• How to identify it in yourself
• What to do
𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧
This workshop has been developed and is facilitated by WACRH’s Mental Health Academic Chantal Bachere-Crinquand who has extensive experience in facilitating mental health workshops and comes from a background in mental health nursing and counselling.
𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙
Anyone interested in developing their knowledge and skills in the area of vicarious trauma. Typically, attendees are frontline human services workers – health workers, education, rangers.
Employers are encouraged to support their employees to attend this workshop. Group/workplace sessions can also be arranged.
“It’s a proven fact that we hold on to trauma. How can somebody who’s holding so much trauma be of service to someone else if they’re full up? You’ve got to empty the glass.” – Mariska Hargitay