Sustaining Compassion: Put the Oxygen Mask on Yourself First!

When was the last time you really considered the impact of your work on you? If you’re like many of your peers, you may spend a lot more time thinking of your clients’ needs than you do your own. You write treatment plans, support people who are hurting, and hone your skills as a helper. What you may be overlooking is what’s happening to you as a result of this work.

Working as a helping professional comes with risk. Repeated exposure to people who are struggling can be draining, depleting us of our enthusiasm and empathy.

The good news is that compassion fatigue is predictable, preventable, and treatable. There are many ways to intervene in powerful ways to create a sense of purpose and joy in your work. In this training you will be given tools to energize you in your work as a counselor, psychologist, therapist, or other helping professional. You will learn practical ways to inoculate yourself against compassion fatigue and burnout.

After this web conference, you’ll be equipped with ways to assess your level of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burnout. You’ll learn how to revitalize your work life, and you’ll have concrete ideas for changes you can implement now. You’ll create your own self-care plan to refresh your energy for your chosen career.

All information included reflects the most current thinking in the field. Resources will be shared, and you will be armed with valuable ways to recover your passion for helping others.

Join us as we learn new ways to turn compassion fatigue into compassion satisfaction.

This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:

1. Identify their own levels of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burnout using a self-assessment instrument;
2. Assess their own levels of resilience and determine ways to enhance resilience;
3. Develop strategies to initiate changes in their workplaces to create healthier work environments;
4. Formulate an effective self-care plan to reduce current symptoms and prevent the future development of compassion fatigue.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.

Event Reviews from Members

Martha was well spoken and addressed issues relevant to the audience. I enjoyed the presentation. -Melissa Huy, PhD

Thank you. This was an important topic! She had a great insight. I will be reviewing this material and really thinking about myself in the process. I also work with many clients in the caretaker professions. So this was not only useful for may own self care, but also many clients and friends too. -Terrie J. Towle, RN, LCPC

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety. GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services. GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. ASWB Approval Period: March 30, 2016 through March 30, 2019. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive two clinical continuing education clock hours. GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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