It is important to incorporate wellness and self-care into one’s daily routine, especially for caregivers and educators who work with children and youth who have experienced trauma. Throughout this course, the effects of acute and chronic trauma have been explored, including its signs and symptoms, program considerations, and experiences of those who interact with children and students affected by trauma. This lesson will focus on what staff members can do to alleviate some of the impact of trauma through wellness and self-care initiatives for themselves, their programs, and the families they serve.
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- Identify the importance of our own behavior and the impact it has on the children and youth we serve.
- 为家庭和工作创造自我保健计划。
- Implement wellness strategies to improve your workplace on an individual, program, and community level.
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想象一下,你醒来,去上班,度过了最美好的一天。这并不意味着一天一直都完美地走得完美,但你留下了希望和能量的感觉。那天发生了什么让你在精神上,情感,身体,社会,精神上和专业的良好?在第三课中,您了解到工作环境对个人健康产生了强烈影响,特别是在育儿中心,幼儿园和小学。亚慱彩票在使用体验创伤的儿童和青年时,次级创伤压力的风险很高。意识到我们自己的行为及其对儿童和青年的影响以及创造一个优先考虑健康的自我保健计划有助于降低次要创伤压力的影响,为您,您的同事和您所服务的儿童和青少年创造积极的工作环境。
Awareness of our Behavior and its Impact
暴露于创伤的儿童和成年人经常在与人和环境互动期间经历“创伤提醒”或“触发器”。触发器可以被定义为刺激,从而脱离创伤体验的存储器。潜在的触发器可以包括噪声,嗅觉,温度,视觉场景,身体感觉,位置,季节或一定的一定时间。这些创伤的提醒可能导致儿童和青年的激烈情绪和行为。计划人员应该了解孩子的个体创伤触发,包括他们的行为如何触发儿童和青年的创伤。在课程中,探索了CAPPD(冷静,Atnund,Presence,Prodictable和Not)模型,了解管理自己的压力和反应的方法。例如,想想有经历创伤的儿童和青年可能会从强调的成年人提出升起的声音和苛刻的话语。全天使用健康策略可以帮助计划工作人员更加注意他们的行为如何影响孩子和学生的房间。
对儿童发展的最重要影响之一及其克服逆境的能力是存在积极,支持,稳定的照顾者。与提供爱和支持的护理人员的强烈,健康,稳定的关系,帮助孩子了解世界是一个安全的学习和成长的地方。作为一个照顾者,为了让你培养与孩子的这种关键关系,你必须先照顾好自己。通过从事自我保健战略,您可以打击次要创伤压力,并增强与儿童和家庭的关系和互动。
Creating a Self-Care Plan
自我护理is an unselfish act that allows a person to maintain good health and optimal wellness. It can be challenging for caregivers and educators to take the time to fit in self-care activities every day. However, life’s daily stressors, both work related and non-work related, can often leave one feeling depleted of energy. This can become an even larger problem for caregivers and educators dealing with secondary traumatic stress. To combat this, it is recommended you create a self-care plan that incorporates the following six areas, at minimum:
虚拟实验yabo11vip室学校课程Social Emotional Learning for Teachers是一种伟大的工具,可以深入了解精神,情感,物理和专业,以确定应对影响您健康的压力的策略。
Developing daily routines that incorporate self-care activities can help reduce the effects of job dissatisfaction and burnout. To complete a self-care plan, it is important to look at what positive and negative coping skills you currently utilize. In reviewing current coping skills, you can develop an understanding of your reaction to negative experiences or crisis situations. Once you have a list of ideas, it is also important to consider barriers that might keep you from engaging in self-care, such as time restraints or guilt. Address these barriers in a way that works for you. Self-care is an individual activity that is meant for you! If you are struggling to create a list of self-care activities, here are some ideas from the National Alliance for Mental Illness:
- Eat regularly (i.e., breakfast, lunch and dinner)
- Eat healthy food
- Exercise consistently
- 定期保健预防
- Get medical care when necessary
- Take time off when sick
- 舞蹈,游泳,步行,奔跑,玩运动,唱歌或做一些令人愉快的身体活动
- Take time to be sexual
- Get enough sleep
- Take vacations
- Wear clothes you like
- Take day trips or mini-vacations
- Make time for self-reflection
- Engage in personal psychotherapy
- Write in a journal
- Read literature that is unrelated to work
- Do something in which you are not an expert or in charge
- Cope with stress in personal or work life
- Notice inner experience (i.e., listen to and recognize thoughts, judgments, beliefs, attitudes, and feelings)
- Provide others with different aspects of self (i.e., communicate needs and wants)
- Try new things
- Practice receiving from others
- 提高对额外责任说“不”的能力
- 允许与您享受的公司的优质时间
- 保持联系与价值ed others
- 给予自我肯定和赞美
- Love self
- Reread favorite book or review favorite movies
- 识别并从事舒适的活动,对象,人,人物和地点
- 允许感觉表达(笑,哭等)
- 留出时间反射
- 花时间与大自然
- Participate in a spiritual community
- Be open to inspiration
- Cherish own optimism and hope
- Be aware of nonmaterial aspects of life
- Cultivate ability to identify what is meaningful and its place in personal life
- Meditate or pray
- Contribute to causes you believe in
- 阅读励志文学(讲座,音乐等)
- 在工作日允许休息
- Engage with coworkers
- 为自己提供安静的时间和空间来完成任务
- Participate in projects or tasks that are exciting and rewarding
- 与客户和同事设定限制和边界
- 平衡工作量
- 安排舒适的工作空间
- Maintain regular supervision or consultation
- Negotiate needs (benefits, bonuses, raise, etc.)
- Participate in peer support group
开发以健康为中心的环境
One aspect to consider in creating your self-care plan is how you can incorporate components of your plan into your workday. Consider developing a wellness focus into your program or educational setting. Lesson Two discussed program environments that are trauma-sensitive. Connecting trauma-sensitive practices is an easy way for caregivers and educators to incorporate self-care coping skills to help the children they serve. Consider also reviewing the Virtual Lab School course on Learning Environments to learn more about how to increase engagement with proper design and a sense of safety by establishing predictable routines. When considering the design and routines of your environment, be sure to use the trauma lens when thinking about items or materials that could trigger a traumatic response. Our environments should serve as a safe space for children and youth so they feel comfortable and empowered. Some features of trauma-sensitive environments may include (Schwartz-Henderson, 2016):
- Have fewer materials on the shelves
- Change materials more frequently
- Provide a space for one child to work independently
- 如果需要,提供柔软的空间以放松
- Minimize visual messages on walls and floor
- Provide décor that is culturally sensitive
- Lower or diffuse lighting and sound
- 没有限制提供自助式零食
- Sequence learning activities for all competencies
Case Study
Donna works in a child care center with an attached primary school. While she loves her job, it can be stressful taking care of multiple children. The administrative staff at the child care center recognize Donna’s struggle and see it often in other staff members. To assist the staff members and make a more positive work environment for both the children and child care professionals, the administration has encouraged staff members to engage in self-care activities throughout the day. There are program-wide self-care strategies, such as Meditation Mondays, where staff members are encouraged to participate in small-group morning meditation sessions either before children arrive or with the children in their classroom, large-group, or morning meeting time. On Wellness Wednesdays, healthy snacks and fresh water with lemons and cucumbers are available in the staff lounge.
Donna decides to find individual ways to implement self-care into her workday. Every morning before children arrive, Donna and Melanie, a teacher from the adjoined program, go for a walk outside around the building for fresh air and exercise. She makes sure she has water throughout the day and has started to bring her own lemon water in a reusable bottle. When the children arrive, Donna works with them to practice some mindful breathing that helps her and also models self-regulation for the children. She has found that many of her self-care strategies have also benefited the children, and she often encourages them to drink more water and takes them outside to play more, too. During her lunch, Donna takes some time alone for quiet and will even turn on a diffuser in the staff break-room with lavender or peppermint to help calm or focus herself. Before transition to nap, Donna has implemented cool down time for her room and turns the lights off and turns on soothing music or sounds of nature for both her and the children. Finally, at the end of her day, Donna takes a few minutes to write in her journal three things that she was grateful for during work. What Donna finds especially important about her new self-care routine at work is the impact on the children. She has become more mindful about how she reacts to the little ones in her room so that she does not cause a trauma response. Coming to this realization, she has started to include a self-care section into her monthly newsletter that she sends out to families to inform them of the practices she uses in her class and ideas for them to practice together at home as a family.
唐娜的幼儿中心的工作人员真正成长,以欣赏自己,并不仅在工作日中发出改善,而且在他们与他们一起工作的儿童中,请注意。现在每月在周三的健康上,工作人员举办一个健康的小吃彼此。他们花时间分享他们已经开始在房间里使用的其他健康和自我保健战略。总体而言,方案范围和个人自我保健战略的实施有助于增加员工之间的社区,减少工作人员的压力,为儿童创造更积极的环境。
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Listen as experts explain why it is critical that professional caregivers take care of themselves in order to care for others and the importance of individuals creating self-care plans that meet their specific needs.
Comprehensive Self-Care
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Comprehensive Self-Care
There are many ways to support one’s wellness as an individual, as a professional, and on a program-wide level. To create a comprehensive self-care plan, consider these strategies:
Individual
- Pack a healthy lunch and snacks and have access to water throughout the day
- Schedule times for quiet reflection and breaks, both when children and youth are and are not present
- 走在房间或建造或做恢复瑜伽姿势,有或没有孩子或青年
- Use a gratitude journal for thoughts about your workday; you can include children in this process or complete during alone time
- Incorporate soothing music and scents into your routine
- 练习呼吸技巧,图像和积极的自我陈述
随时参考课程Social Emotional Learning for Teachers, Lesson Four,for more information on these ideas.
Professional
- Develop a wellness newsletter for program families that includes some of the wellness strategies you implement with their children and provide ideas for wellness activities they can do at home
- Create a network of peers to share thoughts and feelings about your work, be mindful to balance problems with solutions
- Identify when work stress becomes job burnout and seek professional help
随时参考课程Social Emotional Learning for Teachers, Lesson Five,for more information on these ideas.
Program
- 建立明确的沟通方法,了解工作日自我保健重要性;积极主动,协助创建一个健康团队作为领导倡议
- 实施员工广泛的举措,鼓励收集作为健康实践的社区,例如早晨调解或在一周或一个月内庆祝自我照顾
- Incorporate children’s families into wellness activities, such as hosting a self-care night for families to participate in wellness activities together
探索
您将如何创建自己的健康环境?用你的压力和恢复力专业弹性自我护理清单。确定你使用的方式照顾自己的方法自我保健目标handout. Be sure to address barriers to your self-care and wellness to create a plan to overcome those challenges. Then, discuss your responses with a supportive colleague, trainer, coach, or administrator.
Apply
Review the教育工作者的自我照顾andSelf-Care for Caregivers & Teachers in Stressful Times资源和讨论您将这些建议与教练,培训师或管理员纳入这些建议。
Glossary
Term | 描述 |
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Coping skills | Strategies to help deal with stressors. |
Secondary Traumatic Stress | The emotional anguish experienced by an individual after hearing about the traumatic experiences of another. |
自我护理 | An unselfish act of prioritizing your own needs to maintain good health. |
Wellness | A state of being in good health. |
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