Supporting practitioners with secondary trauma

In this episode of Employer Zone Insights, we speak to Jerry Crehan, Emma Hall and Rebecca Dungar who are all practitioners in Norfolk County Council's adults' social care team.

They describe how Norfolk has supported them after they experienced secondary trauma at work.

Residents in some of Norfolk's care homes were neglected and abused; this caused understandable distress to social workers. Because of this adult social care organised a debrief session on secondary trauma.

Here are some links related to secondary trauma:
Invisible workers, hidden dangers | British Psychology Society
Secondary Trauma – PTSD UK
Causes of PTSD - Mind
Vicarious trauma: signs and strategies for coping - British Medical Association

Click here to find out more about a career at Norfolk County Council.
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