Let’s Talk: Managing Practices (Burnout & Compassion Fatigue)

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Date: Friday, May 10, 2024

Time: 10am-11:30pm EST

CEUs: 1.5 credit hour (Approval #032624  by The Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW)). Certificates will be sent to the email used to register for the webinar within 7 business days after completing the course evaluation.

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Although the mental health field allows people to work with individuals from all over the world, there is still the challenge of knowing how to manage burnout and compassion fatigue effectively. Thus, it is crucial that participants learn various interventions to aid in recognizing the symptoms of burnout and compassion fatigue and implement helpful interventions to decrease the symptoms.

Research on poor work/life balance has recently gained momentum due to our increasing loss of social workers in the field, and participants need effective strategies to prepare themselves and their organizations to preserve their mental health while serving others. One strategy for teaching about combatting burnout and compassion fatigue is to have participants analyze their personal experiences with the phenomena. This strategy is especially insightful for participants because it allows them to self-reflect on their own experience and gives them a foundation of understanding how they were impacted by it. When participants are asked to analyze such an experience, it is important to guide them toward careful consideration of recognizing the triggers that occurred prior to the onset of the phenomena, how their body reacted during their personal experience, and how interventions can aid in decreasing the symptoms.

In my presentation, I will discuss how treating compassion fatigue and burnout, as well as creating a healthy dialogue within the workplace demands new skills from our participants. I address concerns behind various approaches to teaching these new skills, and I share instructional strategies that challenge participants to move beyond their generic view of managing practices while working in the mental health field and toward more culturally inclusive and sensitive approaches.