Compassion fatigue, also known as empathy exhaustion, is common in the helping professions. This webinar provides an evidence-based model for assessing compassion strain, along with proactive steps that therapists and supervisors can implement immediately to ensure a robust recovery from any level of compassion fatigue.
Learn how compassion fatigue can affect client treatment, and how to help clients recognize it in their own lives. Liz will share concrete solutions and strategies for supporting ourselves, our peers, our clients, and those we supervise. We will also discuss how to create an institutional prevention and recovery plan, and how to amend it for clients.
Learning objectives:
- Name and describe the symptoms of professional compassion fatigue as well the risk factors for general compassion fatigue
- Conduct a self-assessment regarding the impact of compassion strain on yourself and those you supervise
- Identify the protective skills and practices that prevent compassion fatigue and help to reverse symptoms of emerging impairment
Liz is the owner and director of Insight Counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She has 30 years of experience in adolescent and adult psychotherapy and counseling. A consultant to Newport Healthcare, she is a nationally recognized expert in engaging resistant teens and motivating them to change. Liz was the coordinator of Adolescent Substance Abuse Services at Danbury Hospital and created and ran the hospital's outpatient programming during her 18 years there.