Journalism and Trauma

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Journalism and Trauma

This course will teach you how traumatic stress affects victims and how to interview trauma victims with compassion and respect.

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Overview

  • Enroll in this self-directed course and start learning at your own pace
  • Become a more trauma-informed journalist
  • Take care of your own health after covering a traumatic event

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Learning Outcomes

  • Define traumatic stress and understand its effects
  • Know why it is important for journalists to understand the effects of traumatic stress
  • Identify post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder (ASD) and the potential effects of working with traumatized individuals, including secondary traumatic stress, burnout and vicarious traumatization
  • Interview people who have experienced a traumatic event
  • Cope with secondary stress disorder as a journalist
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Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $0.00.

Overview

  • Enroll in this self-directed course and start learning at your own pace
  • Become a more trauma-informed journalist
  • Take care of your own health after covering a traumatic event

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Journalists who cover traumatic events such as violent crimes, horrific accidents, natural disasters and other situations involving human pain and suffering are often required to approach and interview trauma victims or their family members. However, the skills needed to interact with trauma victims do not always come naturally.

This self-directed course will teach you how traumatic stress affects victims and how to interview trauma victims with compassion and respect.

And, this life-and-death pain and suffering doesn’t affect only the victims; it can affect you, too. This course teaches you how to take care of your own health after covering a traumatic event.

Without knowledge about traumatic stress and proper training in how to interact with potentially traumatized people, journalists may find their interviews to be awkward and uncomfortable. Interviewing and writing about traumatized people professionally and accurately requires a degree of skill and insight. In this course you’ll learn about traumatic stress, explore why journalists should know about its effects, and examine how covering traumatic events affects journalists.

Questions?

We’d love to hear from you. Email us at info@poynter.org.

About self-directed courses

In a self-directed course, you can start and stop whenever you like, progressing entirely at your own pace and going back as many times as you want to review the material.

Anyone working in the news media can benefit from this self-directed course.


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