ENTER Webinar 2025:2 Supporting Others, Sustaining Ourselves: Trauma-Informed Care & Resilience

ENTER is pleased to announce the programme for its next webinar, which will be on Thu. 22 May 2025, 5:00 to 7:00 pm CET.  The theme for the webinar is trauma informed acre.  Psychological trauma is a severe emotional response to distressing events.  Complex trauma results from repeated and/or prolonged trauma, especially among those exposed during childhood.  Trauma causes emotional, behavioural, cognitive and physical symptoms, affects interpersonal relationships, and is associated with life-long risk of physical and psychological health problems.

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Those who work with trauma survivors can experience vicarious trauma, a negative reaction to exposure to others’ trauma.  Working with survivors exposes mental health professionals to distressing information, from reading case notes to being present with those describing or reliving distressing experiences.  Unmanaged vicarious trauma poses a risk to the personal and professional well-being of mental health professionals.  ENTER is responding to this challenge by developing and sharing evidence on the need for trauma-informed approaches, including resilience among mental health service providers.

The presentations will be on:

• "Standing with Ukraine: Professional Training, Emotional Support, and Aid at Maria Grzegorzewska University"

  • Dr Lidia Zablocka-Zytka, Prof. Anna Odrowaz-Coates, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland.

• "From exposure to empowerment: an evidence-based resilience plan for addiction nurses facing vicarious trauma"

  • Dr. K. Nicki Annunziata, Lecturer, Dublin Business School, Dublin, Ireland.

• "Preventing Vicarious Trauma in Psychiatric Nursing: Conceptual Distinctions and Organisational Interventions"

  • Jacob Christian Hvidhjelm, Senior Researcher (Psychiatric Research Unit), Psychiatry Region Zealand: Slagelse, Zealand, Denmark.​

More details are on the presentations here.  The presentations will be followed by a conversation on the issues raised and how ENTER can inform and support appropriate responses across individuals, organisations, and wider society.​

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Click here to register for the webinar