When Helping Hurts: Understanding Vicarious Trauma in Clinical Supervision

ICES and IALGBTIC Present: When Helping Hurts: Understanding Vicarious Trauma in Clinical Supervision (1 CE/PD) WHERE: LIVE WEBINAR DATE: Friday, December 11, 2020 TIME: 12:00pm-1:00pm   *This webinar is FREE and open to ALL ICA MEMBERS!* REGISTER HERE! Description: At our core, counselors want to help. In that process of helping, counselors are exposed to trauma stories that can leave an emotional imprint on the helper. Repeated exposure to these trauma narratives can increase this emotional imprint resulting in vicarious traumatization. Clinical supervision can provide a space for supervisors and supervisees to cooperatively address vicarious trauma, especially if the clinical supervisor is regularly screening for vicarious traumatization with their supervisees.This presentation will provide supervisors with an overview of vicarious trauma, ways to recognize vicarious trauma in supervisees, and a plan that will help support supervisees selfcare as a means to mitigate or prevent vicarious traumatization in counseling.   About the presenter: ADAM W. CARTER, PhD, LCPC, NCC, ACS, CCMHC Dr. Carter is a board certified clinical supervisor (ACS), professor of trauma-informed counseling practices, and the instructor of a doctoral level counselor supervision course at Northern Illinois University. REGISTER HERE! Illinois Counseling Association P.O. Box 367 Dekalb, IL 60115