Managing Compassion Fatigue in Health Professionals

What you will learn

Overview

The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet. (Remen, 2006)

This course will help you identify causes, triggers, and signs of compassion fatigue in healthcare professionals and front-line workers, and provide you with evidence based strategies to manage and overcome it.

Designed For

This course is especially designed for medical, nursing, and allied health professionals. That includes professionals working in ICU, Emergency Department, Acute Medial Wards, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology and Social Work.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain common symptoms and clinical implications of compassion fatigue
2. Identify causes and factors that contribute to compassion fatigue and health professionals at risk of developing it.
3. Undertake a brief compassion fatigue self-assessment to asses one's own level of compassion fatigue.
4. Examine cognitive behavioural based strategies to reduce the negative effects of compassion fatigue
5. Design a self-directed compassion fatigue management plan

1. What is compassion fatigue?
2. Cognitive, physical and behavioural symptoms of compassion fatigue
3. Causes of compassion fatigue
4. Psychological models of compassion fatigue
5. Who is at risk of developing compassion fatigue?
6. Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout: what's the difference?
7. Measuring compassion fatigue
8. Clinical implications of compassion fatigue
9. Prevention and management of compassion fatigue