61st Annual Conference

Thursday, February 26
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:00 P.M. 

Workshop P 40
Caring for the Caregivers in a Traumatized School Community – A Model Intervention Plan Gleaned from Experiences Post-9/11

Chair:              

Toby Chuah-Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, Director, Adventures in Teaching & Counseling, Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Group protocols will be presented that were used by a community agency (Adventures in Teaching and Counseling) over the past two years to address the needs of traumatized administrators, guidance staff, family workers and teachers working in public elementary and middle schools in close proximity to Ground Zero and in schools which housed evacuees. Participants will be invited to share their experiences with secondary traumatic stress, vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue, and issues relates to addressing these with adults in school settings.

sharing of work experiences-experiential-didactic-demonstration

Course References:

1. Bawdry, F. (1992). The Personal Dimension and Management of the Supervisory Situation with a

    Special Note on the Parallel Process, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 62(4), 588-614.

2. Callahan, J. (1999). School Based Crisis Intervention for Traumatic Events. In School

    Social Work: Practice, Policy & Research Perspectives, 4^th ed., Constable, R., McDonald, 

    S. & Lynn, J., Lyceum Books, 399-420.

3. Catherall, D. (1999). Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress: The Importance of the

    Professional Peer Group. In Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians,

    Researchers & Educators, Stamm, B. (Ed.), 80-94. Sidran Press.