The Cost of Caring (Virtual)

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

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