Sadly, we regularly hear health workers normalising traumatic experiences as a part of living and working in rural, remote or isolated environments. This normalisation invalidates the experience, can be an unhealthy coping strategy and can negatively impact the healing journey.

This module has been designed by mental health professionals with remote experience to enable health workers to improve their understanding of what they are experiencing and to recognise strategies to better support themselves, others and their workplaces through these events.

This free, interactive online module helps health workers identify trauma, understand common responses, and support themselves and others in the aftermath of a traumatic event, with consideration to the unique circumstances of a rural, remote or isolated health setting.

This module provides a range of practical strategies and real-life scenarios to help health workers to:

• Identify trauma and common responses
• Discover ways to support themselves and others
• Learn what workplaces can do to support their employees
• Know when and where to seek additional support.