Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

2 reviews for Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

1. Brooke Glaszczak

   Rated 5 out of 5

   December 11, 2023

   5.0 out of 5 stars Create healthy approach to counseling and decrease burnout

   This book was recommended to me by my therapist as I am a upcoming therapist in training. He told me that it completely reframed how he works with cli...More

   This book was recommended to me by my therapist as I am a upcoming therapist in training. He told me that it completely reframed how he works with clients and wishes it was part of grad school curriculum. Boy was he right! I have gleaned so many important insights for reading this book. The author succinctly describes the barriers to the counselor experiencing release and real joy/peace while in the thick of trauma work. The life of a metal health professional working regularly with trauma does not have no always end in burn out, self-care only outside of the office building, and losing the passion/energy of helping others. There is another way and it is described in this book. I will be taking many helpful tools with me into my practice as a new therapist because of this book.

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   Tara

   Rated 5 out of 5

   October 15, 2022

   5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended-Actual strategies besides do your nails.

   I wish I had read this book at the beginning of my career. A research based perspective of preventing and treating burnout. There is a parallel betwee...More

   I wish I had read this book at the beginning of my career. A research based perspective of preventing and treating burnout. There is a parallel between CE-CERT and use of DBT skills, and it all makes sense! As a clinical social worker for 15 years, working in homes, these are skills I utilized during times of stress without realizing they were skills. Looking forward to implementing this in my work as a supervisor. I also feel incredibly validated by telling my intern that if she learned nothing else from me, she learned to take time for lunch every day. 😂

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