Workplace Wellness and Positive Client Outcomes
Burnout and vicarious trauma have never been as prevalent as they are today in healthcare and nonprofit organizations. The job satisfaction of employees and the quality of patient care are deteriorating. More healthcare staff are leaving the field while many community members are giving up hope on treatment and recovery.
Addressing vicarious trauma and burnout within our teams is essential to workplace wellness and ensuring positive client outcomes. Many studies suggest that vicarious trauma and burnout are also caused by organizational demands and systemic problems, more so than only from hearing patients’ trauma stories. Vicarious trauma and burnout are expected job hazards of helping professions, and it is a shared responsibility between individual staff and the organization to work together to address vicarious trauma and burnout.
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Our Workshops
Our vicarious trauma workshops emphasize the potential and presence of vicarious posttraumatic growth and vicarious resilience, which articulate the phenomenon of professionals growing as a result of their work with trauma survivors. This strengths-based focus helps to instill hope, activate curiosity, and illuminate how our risks of vicarious trauma can be transformed into vicarious growth.
Our vicarious trauma and burnout workshops are interactive and experiential. Rather than sit and talk for the length of the session, these workshops will have participants moving around, playing, engaging in self-care, and deepening their connections with each other and their sense of purpose in the workplace.
Our vicarious trauma and burnout workshops provide participants with new tools for self-awareness, a meaningful experience with their colleagues, and a renewed commitment to the work. This has been one of our most requested workshop topics over the past few years, which is further evidence of this widespread problem in the field.
Dr. Scott has provided training to thousands of professionals around the world including various programs in the Philadelphia area such as:
- Mirmont Treatment Center
- Mainline Health Systems
- Caron Treatment Center
- Pinelands Recovery Center
- Banyan Treatment Center
- Maryland Addiction Recovery Center
- Chester County Department of Human Services
- Women Organized Against Rape
- Spilove Psychotherapy
- Espenshade Counseling
- Manor of Hope
- Bryn Mawr College
- University of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- West Chester University
- Denver University
- New Mexico State University
- Columbia University
- Neumann University
- Antioch University
- Widener University
- Penn State University
- International Universities
- Introduction to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Experiential Trauma Therapy
- PTSD, CPTSD, Trauma-Informed Principles, and Post-Traumatic Growth
- The Intersection of Addiction and Trauma
- Experiential Group Treatment: Sociometry and Safety Structures
- An Experiential Trauma Therapy Clinical Map: Neurobiology and Safety
- Using Experiential Work to Transform Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, & Vicarious Trauma
- Working Experientially with Defenses in Addiction & Trauma Work
- Relational Trauma Repair: Psychosocial Metrics & Psychodrama-like Interventions
- Experiential Therapy Supervised Practice
- Psychodrama and Empty Chair Work in Individual Sessions
- Sociatry & Spirituality in Trauma and Addiction Work
- Strengths-based Experiential Work and the Empty Chair
- Role Theory, Doubling, and Attachment Theory
- Experiential Work with Loss, Ambiguous Loss, Traumatic Loss, and Resilience
- Group Work, Group Therapy, Mutual Aid, and the 12-steps
- Grief and Loss: Impacts on Clients and Staff
- The Aging Brain: When Dementia and Mental Health Overlap
- Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapies
- Healers’ Haven: Addressing Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
- Bringing IFS into Practice
- Other topics available upon request
The Phoenix Center is a pre-approved provider of CE Hours for National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), American Psychological Association (APA), and the Pennsylvania boards of Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Psychology. Any in-services trainings by Phoenix Center staff can provide these CEs plus training hours towards certifications in experiential therapy and psychodrama.
Our fee for organizational consultation or clinical training varies based on the nature of the organization, travel distance, number of participants, type of training, and workshop content. Workshops are individualized to meet your organizational needs/preferences and include the provision of CE hours and certificates. See fee schedule below:
- Small group workshops (under 35 people)
- $550/hr or $2750/day
- Large group workshops (35-75 people)
- $1000/hr or $4800/day
- Keynote presentations (and/or groups over 75 people)
- $2000/hr
*Reduced cost offerings are provided to non-profit organizations and international communities on a limited basis. Write to us if cost is the only thing holding you back from working together!
The Facilitator
Dr. Scott Giacomucci has written multiple publications on burnout and vicarious trauma in the workplace while offering workshops around the world on the topic. Check out his 2023 book which summarizes the research on this topic, offers best practices for organizational leaders, and depicts examples of his work supporting various groups of professionals with vicarious trauma and burnout.
Dr. Scott’s work has been internationally recognized, and he is the recipient of various awards. He has published various articles on using experiential methods (especially sociometry, psychodrama, and group work) in clinical, educational, community, and organizational settings. Scott has taught trauma-focused psychodrama courses as an adjunct professor and research associate at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research, University of Pennsylvania’s Doctorate in Clinical Social Work Program, as well as Villanova University’s graduate counseling program.
Throughout his career, he has published several books, which are also converted to YouTube Educational Videos, and both his books and videos have been used in many graduate courses internationally. He is Co-Chief-Editor of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy. He is an active member of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy & Group Processes (IAGP) Social and Collective Trauma Committee and Psychodrama Division.
