These general resources are more in-depth and cover a variety of topics that may be helpful when looking at how to create supportive leadership and supervision for staff to address STS.
- Building Resilient Teams: Facilitating Workplace Wellness & Organizational Health in Trauma-Exposed Environments (digital and print versions) by Patricia Fisher, PhD. This book provides a step-by-step guide to creating groups for staff on building resilience. It is available for a fee.
- “Secondary Traumatic Stress in Child Welfare Practice: Trauma-Informed Guidelines for Organizations,” Second Edition, from The Center for Child Welfare Trauma-Informed Policies, Programs, and Practices. This set of guidelines provides information on how to address STS at an organizational level from the time of the staff member is hired to when they leave the organization.
- What About You? A Workbook for Those Who Work with Others from the National Center on Family Homelessness is a free workbook that provides activities and ideas for how to address STS in the workforce at the organizational level.
- The workbook includes an organizational self-care checklist (Activity 3.3) and discussion questions.
- “Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision Self-Rating Tool, Cross-Disciplinary Version17 is a self-rating tool for supervisors that enables users to rate themselves in a variety of competencies.
- “Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision,” a two-page fact sheet for mental/behavioral health supervisors.
- In the podcast episode, “Supervision: How Supervisors Can Combat Secondary Traumatic Stress” (5 minutes), Alison Hendricks talks about how supervisors can support their staffs who are experiencing STS by becoming STS-informed themselves, assess areas of need and where to look for resources.