Remembering to Care for Ourselves: Compassion Fatigue, Trauma, and Burnout

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We are currently in a landscape where we are being asked to provide more support to individuals who need services with fewer resources. While we care for others, whether they are clients, family, friends, or members of our community who are challenged by substance use, in recovery, or with other biopsychosocial stressors. We often overlook the importance of caring for ourselves while focusing on the needs of others in recovery. Traumatization, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout are very real, regardless of where you are in the care continuum. Recovery Peers, Clinicians, Nurses, Doctors, and the like are challenged as we care for others. We add to this conversation the many challenges that individuals with or working with may have, including trauma and other social determinants of health, and the need to be mindful when our past or present trauma is being activated or reactivated. This workshop will begin to explore how we can manage to care for ourselves while also caring for others. How do we manage the challenges of providing more services with fewer resources and remain connected to why we care for others, both at work and in our personal lives?

Learning Objectives

1. Identify where individuals may land on the caring for others scale and the impact on their current functioning, both in their professional and personal lives

2. Differentiate compassion fatigue versus burnout

3. Understand the impact of retraumatizing trauma and its impact both professionally and personally

4. Develop a comprehensive self-care plan that is sustainable and addresses key areas of concern related to compassion fatigue, reactivated trauma, and burnout.

Continuing Education Credits Available: Western New York Rural Area Health Education Center, Inc. (WNY R-AHEC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Boards for Social Work (#SW-0685), Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Practitioners (#MHC-0268), and Speech Language Pathology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers, physical therapists and assistants, occupational therapists, and assistants, licensed mental health counselors, and speech language pathologists.

InUnity Alliance's NYCB has approved continuing education for CRPAs and CARCs.

Presenter Bio:

Dr. Blackwell is a multijurisdictional licensed clinical social worker, master addiction counselor, certified trauma professional and a certified compassion fatigue professional that has presented on subjects related to mental health, addictions and justice involvement, gender responsive and evidence-based practices nationally and internationally. She has held numerous administrative and clinical positions within both the addictions and mental health disciplines. Most recently she was the Director of OASAS Services at Housing Works, and is currently a Research Project Manager at the New York State Psychiatric Institute Division of Substance Use Disorders at Columbia University, where she is involved with both Curriculum Development and Technical Assistance for the Opioid Response Network and the Rural Opioid Technical Assistance programs in the Northeast and Caribbean.

Continuing Education Registration & Cancellation Policy

Cancellations & Refunds:

• If you need to cancel, you may do so up to 48 hours before the event and will receive a refund, minus any transaction or return fees charged to us by the registration site.
• Unfortunately, cancellations made within 48 hours of the event (or no-shows) are not eligible for a refund.
• Earning Credit:
• • To receive continuing education credit, you’ll need to complete the post-event evaluation within 7 days of the presentation.
  • Please note that credit is awarded according to the issuing organization’s timelines and requirements, so timely completion of the evaluation is essential.

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