Vicarious Trauma & Secondary Stress

Northern Lights Library Branch. Meeting Room 2

Using a trauma-informed approach, this workshop will support interpreters in identifying and assessing the impact of interpreting in stressful and/or traumatic situations. The presenter will provide information regarding several psychological frameworks to increase understanding the physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms that could potentially impact sign language interpreters. In this workshop, participants will assess their own levels of burnout and compassion fatigue and develop a set of tools to increase overall wellness.

Participants will be able to:

• identify and explore the differences between burnout, secondary stress, and vicarious trauma in the workplace.
• identify factors related to increased risk of burnout and factors related to increased resilience
• discuss and develop a personal toolkit to identify, measure, and address secondary stress related to interpreting

Host or Publisher Heritage Interpreting