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The Cost of Caring (SOLD OUT)
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Learn how to prevent and address compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
OUTLINE
1. The Psychological Hazards of Helping Professions
- Understanding and identifying compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout as occupational hazards within front line practice.
2. Self-Assessment
- Self-assessment of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout for each individual.
3. The Empathy Spectrum
- The cost of not caring: Exploring the alternative (practice without empathy, compassion, etc.).
- How “too much” empathy can be harmful.
- How boundaried empathy protects us.
4. Practical Strategies
- Professional grieving
- Mindfulness-based practice
- Self-reflexive practice
- Structured and informal debriefing
- Self-compassion
- Setting professional boundaries
- Value-based work
Please email hello@oaksmentalheath.ca for assistance with group registrations, or if you wish to use an alternative payment method.
NOTE: This course may involve group work. If you are apprehensive about the idea of group work due to social anxiety or any other concern, please notify us. We would be happy to accommodate you as best we can.
April Derkson, BSW, MSW, RSW.
April is a registered social worker, therapist, and mental health educator with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals through crisis and growth. She has worked with youth and adults facing complex trauma, addictions, and co-occurring disorders in both community and government settings. Her approach is shaped by both professional and lived experience, and she values facilitation as a space for mutual learning and connection.
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