Events

Host: Maine Plains  ATTC

Series Title: Compassion Fatigue Online: The Opioid Epidemic – Increasing Knowledge and Skills for Behavioral Health Providers

Dates:
Part I: May 1, 2019
Part II: May 8, 2019
Part III: May 15, 2019
Part IV: May 22, 2019

Time:
• Mountain Time Zone: 10:30 – 11:30 AM
• Central Time Zone: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
• Eastern Time Zone: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Overall Description: “Compassion fatigue increases stress resulting in lost productivity, staff turnover, and overall poor organizational health. Professionals in behavioral health or “helping profession” settings are at risk for developing secondary traumatic stress, depression, and/or burnout as they attend to others’ needs. Professional’s needs are often overlooked in discussions about addressing compassion fatigue in the workforce. Priorities for clinicians, recovery support specialists, and caregivers are to interact with their clients to promote and model healthy coping behaviors.

This 4-part online series will increase the capacity of behavioral health professionals to address compassion fatigue in the workforce, especially in the wake of the opioid epidemic. Specifically, this online series will investigate compassion fatigue, as well as compassion satisfaction, and provide practical tools to build awareness, self-compassion, and psychological flexibility as they choose a life of service to others.”

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