
This introductory 180-minute (proposed) overview of the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model includes didactic content, video, group interaction and personal reflection. [This overview could be shorted to 90 min but with much less interaction and skill exposure]. This workshop opens with a brief description of scope of the problem, STS impacts and model rationale. While referencing the foundational sources of the relevant neuropsychological, social cognitive, anxiety and trauma treatment literature from which the components are drawn, the remaining minutes (including Q & A) detail the five key evidence-informed practice and supervision skills of the model. 1) skills for engaging and “metabolizing” intense emotions; 2) Skills for decreasing ruminating thoughts; 3) Being in charge of our own story (narrative); 4) Skills to reduce the helping burden, and 5) Skills for the stress response in our body and mind Workplace wellness is a multi-faceted endeavor. Organizations have a responsibility for integrating trauma-informed practices from hiring through on-going training, supervision, and staff development. To truly call themselves trauma-informed, organizations also have a responsibility to have processes, procedures training and supervision in place to support workers with trauma histories and who experience vicarious trauma (VT) and secondary trauma symptoms (STS) due to exposure to individuals with complex trauma histories (SAMHSA, 2014). A recent scoping study, (Kim et al. 2022), noted that existing interventions for VT “tend to focus on general stress management rather than addressing the specific effects of VT”, and called for efforts to tailor specific STS intervention at the individual and organizational level. Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) an evidence-informed STS approach developed by psychologist Brian Miller PhD, reverse engineers the symptoms of VT, STS and burnout and applies knowledge and skills from multiple areas of science to reduce or prevent the aversive impacts of workplace stress. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the CE-CERT component skills, reflect on their current coping and leave with immediately usable skills via a personal plan. Supervisors and administrators who attend, are encouraged to consider how the components can and should be integrated into group or individual supervision, and into organizational culture. Information is provided on opportunities for full day CE-CERT foundational training as well as additional resources.