This virtual workshop focuses on using mindfulness-based interventions to reduce, chronic stress, burnout and compassion fatigue in helping professionals to improve overall wellness in addition to improving client care.

Primary issues to be covered include understanding and defining burnout and compassion fatigue and understanding how they negatively impact overall wellness and patient care. Participants will also learn about the stress response and how to intentionally stimulate the related relaxation response to better manage and decrease compassion fatigue. Participants will learn practical coping skills and effective tools to reduce their own burnout and develop awareness of the signs of stress and burnout.

2 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs, NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of training.

Course objectives:

• Define Burnout and Compassion Fatigue and understand its effects on the emotional and physical health of helping professionals and client care

• Support helping professionals in navigating the ongoing stress and challenges of the pandemic using mindfulness interventions and practices.

• Explore the work culture in the helping profession and how it contributes to the cycle of burnout and compassion fatigue

• Implement trauma-informed mindfulness to elicit the relaxation response, to process the past year, and ease anxiety around the continued uncertainty and stress of the pandemic

• Identify symptoms of chronic stress, burnout and compassion fatigue in helping professionals and provide potential solutions and strategies to improve them.

• Integrate practical mindfulness-based tools and techniques to aid in relaxation, focus and concentration and improve overall wellbeing in the helping field.

In accordance with the NY State Department of Education guidelines, in order to receive continuing education contact hours, a participant needs to be present for the duration of the workshop/training. Therefore, participants who arrive late or leave the event early will not be granted a certificate of completion.

​Cancellation Policy: Refunds will be provided for cancellations made in writing up to three business days prior to the start of the event.

Accommodations and Accessibility: HVPD welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact us at info@hudsonvalleyprofessionaldevelopment to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits – Ethics. For many states, live, interactive webinars count the same as in person.

Bring the questions you ponder! Whether we realize it or not, professional ethics are constantly at play in our practice across all settings. Whether in healthcare, education, not for profit, case or program management, or private practice, we invite you to join clinical social worker Rebecca Marcus, LCSW!

We’ll examine the tug of war that so easily emerges in many social work and mental health based settings. Participants will explore insights surrounding ethics-based management of client-therapist relationship definitions and the differences that may be present among clients and practitioners’ expectations, the role of self disclosure and countertransference in treatment ethics, identifying and implementing effective boundaries in practice, as well as addressing challenges and conflicts of institutional vs practitioner vs client value systems within multiple settings while upholding a person-centered therapeutic alliance.

An online event by Hudson Valley Professional Development

About this event

Children and adolescents have experienced new anxiety and stress during these unprecedented and uncertain times. This workshop focuses on the use of mindfulness-based practices and interventions for managing the anxiety and stress that children and adolescents have experienced over the past year, as well as preparing for the anticipated challenges of returning to school in the fall.

Join Rebecca Marcus, LCSW, in this virtual training to learn how to support children, adolescents and caregivers in navigating the stressful and challenging adjustment of the upcoming school year.

Primary issues to be covered include understanding and defining mindfulness and stress and understanding the fight or flight response and stress cycle, and how to intentionally stimulate the related relaxation response to better manage and cope with anxiety and ongoing challenges.

2 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs and NYS Licensed Psychologists upon completion of training.

Objectives:

• Define mindfulness and how it can be used to manage anxiety and improve emotional regulation

• Explore and understand the role of anxiety as a protective survival response and defense mechanism

• Implement trauma-informed mindfulness to elicit the relaxation response, to process the past year, and ease transition during reopening

• Identify symptoms of chronic stress and anxiety in children and adolescents

• Integrate practical mindfulness-based tools and techniques to aid in relaxation, focus and concentration