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Abstract

Research demonstrates that professions focused on service to people (teaching, nursing, medical professions, social work, psychology, etc.) tend to have higher turnover and shorter career trajectories due to burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary trauma (Price-Hamilton 2024, Sanders, 2021, and Carello & Butler 2014). Additionally, many students entering higher education have a history of trauma or may experience trauma while at college which will impact their learning and their self-care habits (Carello & Butler, 2014 and Henshaw, 2022). The combination of using Trauma-informed pedagogy while integrating discussion and learning around burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary trauma during their final year in school can increase student use and understanding of self care practices. Internship / Practicum / Clinicals are ideal classroom settings to begin to assist students in adopting behaviors that will improve their resiliency from the onset of their careers. Participants will explore the eight principles of Trauma Informed Pedagogy (Carello & Thompson, 2022). These include ensuring students’ physical, emotional, and academic safety, fostering trustworthiness and transparency, intentionally facilitating connection and support, promoting collaboration and mutuality, empowering voice and choice, teaching self-regulation, fostering student identified sense of purpose, and paying attention to cultural, historical and gender contexts (Clark, 2023, Goodwin & Tiderington, 2022, Henshaw, 2022, Miller et all, 2023, Stromberg, 2023, and Glems et all, 2021). Included will be discussion on concerns with Trauma Informed Pedagogy and ways to mitigate potential harms (Mller & Stipp, 2023, Miller & Stipp, 2024, and Carello & Butler, 2014). Participants will learn about the Professional Quality of Life Scale (PROQOL) which is an evidence-based tool to measure burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma. The PROQOL is a trauma informed tool with strong evidence base (Stamm, 2010). The presentation will share the presenter’s experience with administering and teaching the PROQOL to students in Field Classes to assist with improving the capacity for students to adopt behaviors that mediate burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma. The presentation will focus on the areas measured by PROQOL with activities to introduce in class that address burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, Moral Distress, Perceived Support, and Secondary Traumatic Stress. Resources and handouts from the PROQOL will be shared (Self-care Tools | ProQOL). A five minute activity conducted during a social work field class also will be demonstrated.

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