Secondary Traumatic Stress – Mindfulness and Other Strategies for Looking After Yourself course details
This training focuses on secondary traumatic stress and the emotional impact of fostering on carers. It explores how caring for children who have experienced trauma can affect foster carers’ wellbeing and resilience. The session introduces mindfulness and other practical self-care strategies to help carers recognise stress, maintain emotional health and sustain their fostering role.
Learning outcomes
The training will support foster carers to recognise and manage the emotional demands of fostering.
By the end of the course, you will have:
- an understanding of secondary traumatic stress and its impact
- increased awareness of signs of stress and burnout
- practical mindfulness and self-care strategies
- confidence in prioritising wellbeing alongside caring responsibilities
- tools to support resilience and long-term sustainability in fostering
Standards
Training, Support and Development Standards (TSDS)
- Standard 1: Understand the principles and values essential for fostering
- Standard 2: Understand your role as a foster carer
- Standard 7: Develop yourself
National Minimum Standards (NMS)
- NMS 15: Foster carers are supported through training and development
- NMS 21: Foster carers receive support to sustain their role