FITT Clinician Knowledge Attitudes and Skills Self-Assessment: Professional Growth

FITT Clinician Knowledge Attitudes and Skills Self-Assessment

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Knowledge

1. Understand the complexity of effects on the family trauma therapist when working with families who experience trauma.*

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2. Understand the importance of self awareness and self care as they impact upon personal and professional development. This includes practitioners, practitioners’ families, supervisors, administrators, agencies as a whole, and organizations.*

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3. Identify and explain the mechanisms through which organizations, institutions, agencies (including private practices), and individuals thrive by promoting resilience, managing work-related stress, and endorsing safety practices.*

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Attitudes

1. Demonstrate awareness of the importance of the family trauma therapist’s experience in managing the complex nature of practicing with families that have experienced trauma and the impact on the family trauma therapist’s professional and personal functioning.*

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2. Acknowledge the potential for added demand on the family trauma therapist and special considerations for working with trauma in a family that are unique from work with individuals who have experienced trauma.*

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3. Value self-care and self-awareness as essential components in professional development of FTT, supervisor, and agency/organization to effectively serve therapists, clients, and agencies/organizations.*

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4. Integrate into organizational culture the concepts of vicarious trauma, secondary stress, compassion fatigue, countertransference, and burnout; the need for self-care and self-awareness; supervision; and the role of the organization in managing these concepts.*

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Skills

1. Practice partnership in the supervision/consultation relationship to address the complexities of family trauma work, resiliency, and potential impacts.*

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2. Create and practice a self-care plan that identifies concrete methods to promote personal and professional self-care.*

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3. Promote resilience throughout the organization/institution/agency including structure and support to manage work-related stress and safety practices in place which address impact of family trauma on employees and agency.*

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4. Establish an individual skill set for working with families who have experienced trauma by utilizing a “family lens” in trauma work, including developing an understanding about the complexity of family response to trauma and its impacts on the practitioner.*

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