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The Cost of Caring (Saskatoon)
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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
This training is part of our Mental Health Essentials for Non-Profits program. Learn more here!
Please email hello@oaksmentalhealth.ca for assistance with group registrations, or if you wish to use an alternative payment method. Group discounts and student discounts are available on a case-by-case basis.
Erin Redekop, BSW, MSW, RSW.
Erin is a registered social worker, therapist, and mental health educator with experience supporting people through trauma, illness, and loss. She has facilitated support groups, spoken at conferences, and provides education that helps others build confidence in offering compassionate, stigma-free support.
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