Compassion fatigue

This seminar recording has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, recognized leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn evidence-based compassion resiliency and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue. Learn self-regulation--practical skills that are critical to your being maximally effective with your clients and improving treatment outcomes. For the past 30 years, research has been steadily accumulating to demonstrate that caring has its costs. We now know that working with others who suffer from depression, pain, abuse and trauma have negative effects on the caregiver--many of which are potentially debilitating. Listen to this seminar and learn powerful tools (the anti-bodies) that are critical for professional resiliency and integrate them into your practice immediately. Additionally, you will leave with techniques to teach and help your clients improve their lives. Let Dr. Gentry give you a fresh start by showing you how to recapture your sense of mission, purpose, hope and joy in your career helping others. OBJECTIVES: Summarize the causes, effects, treatments and prevention of compassion fatigue that includes burnout, secondary traumatic stress, & caregiver stress; Explain how compassion fatigue erodes professional resiliency; Implement skills for successful self-regulation; Demonstrate an increased capacity to remain comfortable and maximally effective regardless of external demands; Develop a personalized professional 'moral compass' for the starting point for professional maturation and resiliency; Implement simple, yet powerful, strategies to prevent the symptoms of Compassion Fatigue; Create a self-directed, easy-to-use, personalized Professional Resiliency Plan.  Read more...