INTRODUCING TEXP 2: A PRACTICE-BASED APPROACH TO SELF-CARE
Wounded Warriors Canada is proud to launch our latest online training course designed for health care providers:
TExP 2: A practice-based approach to self-care.
Created in partnership with Atlas Institute for Veterans and Families, TExP 2 introduces practical self-care tools that providers can incorporate into their professional practices throughout their work with trauma-exposed professionals (TExPs). Available in both French and English, join us as we discuss how to practically incorporate self-care into your professional practice before, during, and after your work with TEXP clients by structuring one’s clinical practice around self-care principles, maintaining a ‘low trauma diet’, and considering adopting a ‘self-care lifestyle’ as a standard part of being a TExP clinician.
Tim Black, National Clinical Director of Wounded Warriors Canada, commented, “The unique nature of TExP clients such as the number, frequency and often highly disturbing nature of their traumatic event exposures means that clinicians who work with TExPs are at increased risk for burnout, compassion fatigue and potential traumatization themselves. Traditional approaches to self-care that focus on “end of the week, non-work-related activities” may not be sufficient to help clinicians who work with TExPs avoid the negative impacts of chronic traumatic event exposure in their work.”
Building on and expanding the BETR model from Introduction to Working with Trauma Exposed Professionals (TExP 1), the programs collegial and conversational approach encourages us to take the same care with ourselves as we do with our clients. Released in May 2022 with support and funding from the Atlas Institute, TExP1 was developed by Wounded Warriors Canada’s National Clinical Director, Dr. Tim Black, to provide culturally specific clinical approaches for supporting this unique population, which includes Canadian Armed Forces members, Veterans, first responders and health care professionals. When TExP1 was first released there was immediate national demand with more than 1,850 providers having completed the course to date.
MaryAnn Notarianni, Deputy CEO and Executive Vice-President, Knowledge Mobilization at the Atlas Institute, commented, “We’re so pleased to build on our productive partnership with Wounded Warriors Canada with the development of this new course which will empower health care providers who work with trauma-exposed professionals to incorporate effective approaches to self-care into their practices. Supporting their well-being ultimately supports the well-being of the Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, first responders and their Families that they work with.”