Understanding and Responding to Vicarious Trauma and Building Workplace Solutions
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Room 3: In-Person Only
| Monday, November 25, 2024 |
| 4:10 PM - 5:10 PM |
| Room 3 |
Overview
Tara Hunter, Full Stop Australia
Speaker
Ms Tara Hunter
Director, Clinical And Client Services
Full Stop Australia
Understanding and Responding to Vicarious Trauma and Building Workplace Solutions
Abstract
This workshop will briefly outline the impacts of being exposed to traumatic content, particularly in the context of working within a frontline sexual, domestic and family violence service. Full Stop Australia works with organisations in trauma-exposed environments to create safer, healthier work environments that support acknowledgement of vicarious resilience, empower individuals and teams to thrive while eliminating or mitigating the risk of adverse psychological hazards.
This workshop will also provide the opportunity to explore the considerations for developing an organisation-wide response and tailoring well-being solutions that honour resilience and the particular challenges for the domestic and family violence sector.
Key Learnings:
1. Understanding vicarious trauma and other employment related stress
2. Identify frameworks for preventing and responding vicarious trauma and other employment related stress
3. Skill development in responding to the impacts of vicarious trauma and burnout and the development of team based and individual well-being strategies.
This workshop will also provide the opportunity to explore the considerations for developing an organisation-wide response and tailoring well-being solutions that honour resilience and the particular challenges for the domestic and family violence sector.
Key Learnings:
1. Understanding vicarious trauma and other employment related stress
2. Identify frameworks for preventing and responding vicarious trauma and other employment related stress
3. Skill development in responding to the impacts of vicarious trauma and burnout and the development of team based and individual well-being strategies.
Biography
Tara Hunter, Director Clinical and Client Services at Full Stop Australia. With a Master of Social Work, Tara’s approach to leadership is supported over 25 years of experience, from front-line client work to high-level strategic advisory roles including a recent appointment to the NSW Government Women’s Advisory Council.
Having managed sexual assault services, led and mentored teams of clinicians through complex caseloads, spoken publicly and in parliament on key law reform matters.
Tara is committed to building stable and reliable trauma-specialist systems that support clients and front-line workers, while also addressing the underlying systemic and social causes of gender-based violence.
