- Overview of the history of compassion fatigue
- Why it is on a rise the field of caregiving
- Etiology through its two primary components:
- Secondary traumatic stress
- Professional burnout
Working with People Who Are Traumatized and/or Suffering:
Critical Signs for Every Clinician to Watch For
- Potential symptoms and effects associated with compassion fatigue.
- The process (i.e., “infection”) of secondary traumatic stress
- Burnout as caused by autonomic dysregulation and distorted perception
Assessment and Clinical Skills for Professional Resilience
- Compassion fatigue assessment instruments for self and others: Pro-QOL
- Put it to Practice: Self-administration, Scoring & Interpretation of Pro-QOL
- How to narrate personal/professional history that has led to negative effects associated with work
- Put it to Practice: Graphic Time Line and Written Narrative of Caregiving
- Understand the role that perceived threat and sympathetic nervous system dominance play in compassion fatigue symptoms
- Put it to Practice: Skills-building with self-regulation
Compassion Fatigue Strategies: Restore Joy in Your Work To Better Help Your Clients
- Prevent future effects associated with secondary traumatic stress:
- Connection/support
- Relaxation
- Narrative to resolve current
- Symptoms
- Methods to resolve current and
- prevent future effects of burnout
- Skilled application of CBT tools to lessen the effects of compassion fatigue
- Relaxation
- Exposure
- A method for symptom amelioration and resiliency.
- Put it to Practice: Complete “Documents of Intention”
Professional Resilience:
Clinical Skills to Enhance Resiliency
- Processes, trajectory and tasks associated with professional maturation
- Model that allows you to be healthy and maximally functional independent of environmental “demands”
- The five key resiliency skills for the prevention
- Design a self-directed professional resiliency plan
- Put it to Practice: Complete Self-Directed Professional Resilience Plan



