The Cost of Caring

Learn how to prevent and address compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.

OUTLINE
1. The Psychological Hazards of Helping Professions
- Understanding and identifying compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout as occupational hazards within front line practice.

2. Self-Assessment
- Self-assessment of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout for each individual.

3. The Empathy Spectrum
- The cost of not caring: Exploring the alternative (practice without empathy, compassion, etc.).
- How “too much” empathy can be harmful.
- How boundaried empathy protects us.

4. Practical Strategies
- Professional grieving
- Mindfulness-based practice
- Self-reflexive practice
- Structured and informal debriefing
- Self-compassion
- Setting professional boundaries
- Value-based work

Register Here: https://oaksmentalhealth.ca/public-training/the-cost-of-caring-saskatoon-5/

You may also like the following events from Oaks Mental Health:

• Next Wednesday, 24th September, 09:00 am, Calming Through Connection: Foundational De-Escalation Strategies (Virtual) in Saskatoon
• Next month, 8th October, 06:00 pm, Compassionate Responses to Self-Harm: A Lunch & Learn (Virtual) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Next month, 16th October, 09:00 am, Supporting People With Addictions in Saskatoon

Also check out other Workshops in Saskatoon.