Compassion Fatigue
Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour
Description of Course:
Participants explore the features, symptoms, and risk factors of compassion fatigue, along with self-awareness exercises and self-care strategies as key components for prevention.
Course Objectives:
- Define compassion fatigue.
- Understand the difference between compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.
- Understand the difference between burnout and secondary trauma as features of compassion fatigue.
- Identify symptoms and risk factors of compassion fatigue.
- Utilize various self-awareness exercises to identify one’s risk of developing compassion fatigue.
- Identify and understand how to apply the ABC’s of preventing compassion fatigue (awareness, balance, connections) and key components of self-care (physical, psychological, behavioral).