Teaching · Related Services

Look after the adult who listens.

Note what you heard this month and what you have noticed in yourself. The page reflects it back without a score, shows which supports are missing and turns it into a small plan.

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The plan

Private to this browser, under your own code. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A plain reflection of the month, the supports to add, a one-step plan with someone to tell, and where to get help.
Who it is for
Teachers, counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses and other school staff who hear about students’ trauma.
Format
Browser page for your own use. Saved only in this browser; printed with the summary or as a blank form; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
notice what you carry, then set some down
Drawn for this page. Hearing about students’ trauma week after week leaves a mark on the adults who listen; noticing it is the first step to managing it.

How to use it

  1. Start a plan with your own code and the date.
  2. Mark what you were exposed to this month.
  3. Mark what you have noticed in yourself, honestly.
  4. Check which supports are in place.
  5. Write one thing to start and one person to tell, then come back in a month.

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Why this page exists

What secondary traumatic stress is

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network describes it as the emotional strain of hearing about another person’s trauma, with reactions that can look like traumatic stress itself: unwanted memories, avoidance, poor sleep, irritability, numbness. It is common in helping work and not a personal failing.

What helps

Talking with colleagues after hard cases, supervision where it can come up, routines that close the workday, sleep and movement, and time away. Schools help most when they build these in for everyone.

What this is not

A screening or diagnosis. If you are struggling, talk with a health professional or your employee assistance program; if you have thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988.

Sources

  1. National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Secondary Traumatic Stress Committee (2011). Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals.
  2. National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2018). Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact on Professionals in Trauma-Exposed Workplaces.
  3. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Tips for Disaster Responders: Understanding Compassion Fatigue, and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
  4. National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools: staff self-care and secondary traumatic stress.

The example is made up. If you have thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.