CE-CERT

Reducing Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress with a Skills-Based, Evidence-Informed Approach

  • Psychotherapists

  • Child welfare workers

  • Social Workers and Counselors

  • Physicians

  • Nurses

  • Educators

CE-CERT

CE-CERT

Brian C. Miller, Ph.D.

Dr. Miller has experience in various behavioral health, direct practice, clinical leadership, and policy roles. He holds a PhD from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.

The goal of CE-CERT is to have a vocation that is uniquely and deeply satisfying — not merely to survive your job

CE-CERT MODEL

Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

What is New Here?

  • CE-CERT is evidence-informed. CE-CERT draws from extensive research literature, including evidence-based trauma treatment, neuroscience, sociology, narratology, occupational psychology, and clinical treatment effectiveness research.

  • CE-CERT is a set of practices that can be applied to reduce the effects of job stress and to enhance the experience of doing helping work. Not just ideas—concrete practices and skills.

  • CE-CERT focuses on enhancing the experience of doing the job while we are doing it. It is not a recover-after-work approach but deals with the real-time experience of doing helping work.

  • CE-CERT has a manualized, defined process for implementing the practices in an organization.

Compassion Fatigue

Burnout

Vicarious Trauma

Secondary Trauma

These concepts have one thing in common: they describe the emotional toll experienced by workers in the helping professions who deal intensively and empathically with persons engaged in an emotional personal struggle.

CE-CERT (Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma) has been enthusiastically embraced in child welfare, healthcare, and education settings as well as behavioral health.