0596 - The Silent Struggle: Trauma, Burnout, and the Mental Health of Women
Course Description
Hours: 12
This course is tailored for helping professionals who are dedicated to understanding and addressing burnout in women. It provides a comprehensive framework to recognize and navigate the unique pressures women face, including emotional labor, societal expectation and gendered roles that contribute to burnout. Participants will explore how these factors lead to chronic stress, emotional exhaustion and overwhelm, all of which significantly impact women's mental health. The course offers trauma-informed interventions, equipping helping professionals with practical tools to help women recover from burnout and reclaim their sense of well-being, balance and agency. This course is essential for professionals who want to provide compassionate, targeted support to women navigating burnout in today's demanding world.
Learning Objectives
- Learn to recognize and address the hidden pressures contributing to women’s mental distress, such as emotional labor, caregiving expectations and societal narratives, while integrating body-based and trauma-informed practices to help women complete the stress cycle and foster true healing.
- Understand how beliefs like “I should be able to handle this” or “My needs come last” contribute to burnout, and explore ways to challenge these internalized gender expectations with evidence-based and relational approaches, addressing shame, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.
- Equip women with practical tools to manage stress, regulate emotions, and heal from trauma, while creating culturally responsive treatment plans that empower them to reclaim pleasure, rest, and personal agency, rebuilding a sense of self and restoring emotional well-being through holistic, client-centered care.
Notes
Time Zone: All listed class times are held in ET (Ontario, Canada)
For more information contact the Faculty of Social Work Professional Development office:
Email: fswprofessionaldevelopment@wlu.ca
Phone: 548-889-5128
Cancellations and Transfers
Be sure to carefully review our cancellation and transfer information before registering.
Website: wlu.ca/fswpd
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Women's Mental Health Certificate : Women's Mental Health