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CE Course Description

Trauma is a prevalent issue in the United States that can impact individuals, families, and communities. Some estimates show that 70% of adults will experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Each person who has been through trauma has their own unique experience. Still, the lasting impression of trauma can negatively affect a person’s mental and physical health, their ability to cope and function, and their social, emotional, and/or spiritual well-being. More than ever, mental health professionals are providing support to clients who have experienced trauma while also living through similar traumatic events and stressors. These shared experiences, along with the nature of doing therapeutic work, can cause mental health professionals to have difficulty in their personal and professional lives. They may also experience a range of responses to their work, including vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and/or burnout. This course will provide an overview of vicarious trauma, including risk factors, symptoms, and the ethical implications that may go along with it. Secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout will be reviewed with a focus on how these responses are different from vicarious trauma. Individual self-care techniques will also be offered, along with suggestions for creating a trauma-informed workplace. 

Author: Amy Colver, MSSA, MA, LISW

CE Course Objectives

1. Demonstrate an understanding of vicarious trauma, including the risk factors that can lead to it and the symptoms that accompany it. 
2. Identify how vicarious trauma differs from secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
3. Select self-care techniques that promote personal and professional resilience and apply them in your life.

Social Work Approval

Social Work CE Credit for this course is offered with the following approvals. Many state boards of social work will accept the approvals listed. Provider Approvals by state and license type can be found here.

• Quantum Units Education is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, CAMFT Provider #89970, to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEP. Quantum Units Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
• Florida board for Social Workers CE Provider #50-8650 (Quantum 'immediately' reports CE Credits to Florida licensees) 
• Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, License No. 159.001261 approved CE Sponsor
• Ohio CSWMFTB #RCST091701 approved CE Provider
• Texas Board of SWE #5070 approved CE Provider
• Quantum Units Education, #1289, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 01/03/2023 - 01/03/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 'General' continuing education credits.

To see other approvals in your state, see our state by state provider approval listings here.

Course Development: Each course is identified and reviewed by the appropriate Quantum Units Education consultant with professional and licensed expertise in the various disciplines we serve. Our professional consultants oversee course development to satisfy the needs of various professionals based on their board requirements, rate course degrees of difficulty and ensure the course content and exam questions are appropriate, relevant and comprehensive. See our professional staff and their bios here.

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Added On: 07/23/2025