Preventing Vicarious Trauma

Facilitator
Dr Richard Cash

Date
Monday 20 July 2026
Time
9:30am–1:00pm
Duration
3.5 hours
Location
Online

Early bird
$320
Standard 
$370
Group
$300 per person (groups of 5+ people)

Who should attend
This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for new, experienced and advanced practitioners. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.

Build your resilience and learn effective self care strategies

This workshop covers all you need to know about potential reactions to distressing and stressful material at work. Take a half day out of your work to help build resilience by increasing your repertoire of prevention and self care strategies.

Join Dr Richard Cash, our trauma expert, to understand the range of potential reactions to distressing, confronting or objectional material at work and learn about the different ways working with trauma survivors can affect you.

You will learn how to recognise and differentiate a number of responses, including vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury. Develop best practice strategies for prevention and learn how to identify early warning signs, implement effective self care strategies and access further support.

This workshop is for everyone who wishes to maintain their own resilient practice and for those who supervise and mentor others.

Learning outcomes

• Recognise the range of ways we can be affected by exposure to other people’s trauma at work
• Recognise and understand the range of possible responses when dealing with distressing or objectionable material
• Identify burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue as potential responses
• Learn about the neuroscience of these responses
• Understand the impacts of these responses on wellbeing and functioning
• Learn effective best practice responses for prevention, self care and accessing recovery supports