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.