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Leadership and COVID-19: The Relationship Between Compassion Fatigue and Organizational Health

This presentation will focus on assisting treatment leaders to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on organizational health and on employee experience of burnout and vicarious trauma. The session will focus on compassion fatigue education from a leadership perspective. Compassion fatigue basics, organizational stressors as a source of employee burnout, operational stressors as a source of vicarious trauma, and the long-term influence of both as factors in the development of organizational trauma will be covered. Attendees will review techniques for assessing organization health and management strategies for maximizing organizational wellness.

Session Time: 
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Session Category: 
Employment, Training & Credentialing
Session Type: 
Workshop
Learning Objectives: 
• Define burnout and secondary trauma and to describe the relationship between them in the experience of Compassion Fatigue and Organizational Trauma
• Ability to define and assess for organizational trauma within their own work environment
• Ability to implement management strategies for minimizing burnout, vicarious trauma, and organizational trauma
Presenter
Presenter Name: 
Michael Barnes
Job Title: 
CCO
Organization Affiliation: 
Foundry Treatment Center Steamboat Springs
Credentials: 
PhD
Michael Barnes is a Licensed Addiction Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Diplomate in the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. He serves as the Chief Clinical Officer at the Foundry Treatment Center. Dr. Barnes comes to the Foundry after serving for five years as the Clinical Manager of Residential Services at CeDAR (Center for Dependency, Addiction, and Rehabilitation) at the University of Colorado Hospital and 10 years as a full-time clinical professor in Counseling. Dr. Barnes speaks nationally on Trauma Integrated Addiction Treatment, Families Trauma and Addiction, and Compassion Fatigue.
Year: 
2021