The Cost of Caring (Virtual)
Learn how to prevent and address compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
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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@oaksmentalhealth.ca for assistance with group registrations, or if you wish to use an alternative payment method.
This training is part of our Mental Health Essentials for Non-Profits program. Learn more here!
Martha Dalton, BSW, MSW, RSW.
Martha Dalton is a registered social worker and mental health educator with over a decade of experience in health and social care across Canada and the UK. She has supported youth and adults through experiences of grief, trauma, life transitions, and complex health and social challenges in both healthcare and community settings.
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