Trauma Containment Counselling

Supporting Emotional Recovery

About this course

  • The requirement for employee wellness is increasingly growing with stressful home lives and work environments being seen to have an impact on employee performance. Effective employee wellness programmes increase productivity, staff satisfaction, communication in the workplace and decrease absenteeism.
  • The course will enable managers and team leaders to act as internal support staff towards their colleagues in need of containment and support before they are referred to an EAP provider.

What will I Learn

The main goal of this training is to equip wellness professionals with the basic skills to contain, support and demonstrate empathy to clients who may have experienced traumatic and/or difficult emotional incidents in their lives. This course will teach participants who embark on this workshop the appropriate responding tools, and how to reflect and paraphrase a client/employee who experiencing a personal related trauma in their lives.

Outcomes

  • To teach listening, communication, support and basic counselling skills by:
  • Identifying and improving listening skills
  • Teaching appropriate responding and containing skills
  • Looking at issues of empathy, respect, non-judge mentalism and congruence
  • Identify employee in crises
  • Discussing appropriate approaches to referring to the EAP