Compassion Fatigue - Specialised Burnout Prevention Training.

Are you a caregiver, service provider or health focussed professional ?

Many times in these types of professions, fatigue, drained feelings and overall dissatisfaction, can arise after some years or even sporadically. Caused by the overuse of empathic resources in this type of fatigue, distinctive and specialised expertise is needed to address and treat what is often misdiagnosed as burnout.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Prevention

Compassion fatigue describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others — often through experiences of stress or trauma. Mistaken for burnout, which is a cumulative sense of fatigue or dissatisfaction, the overuse of empathic resources in this type pf fatigue is distinctive in helping professions.

Who is at Risk :

First time responders, Healthcare providers like doctors, nurses and therapists, psychologists, councillors, caregivers of children or adults with special needs, pastors, chaplains and humanitarians.

What Can be Done :

Learning self-compassion and treating oneself with kindness, care, and understanding is key especially for caregivers. With therapist-practitioner relationships laced with compassion, practitioners often fail to apply it to themselves (Coaston, 2017). However difficult it can be to be kind to oneself when other clients are in even more dire situations, caregivers can't support others when they feel vulnerable. So a complicated paradox sits inside the career trajectory and needs careful handling.

STEP 1

An important first step in overcoming compassion fatigue is tending to oneself with kindness, which may include some some of the following actions :

• Setting emotional boundaries,
• Reducing one's workload,
• Letting colleagues know that we're struggling,
• Seeking professional help.

Improving the condition isn't always about making huge changes. Sometimes simply connecting to our values of why we do this work can be really important in combating against and even preventing compassion fatigue.?

STEP 2

This is where leaders come in since they have the bird eye view on teams or departments that may home many of the helping professionals that require new level understanding and adjustments to their working pressure. Learning to navigate the work environments of these healthcare practitioners with enough sensitivity is essential for burnout prevention. "Understanding leadership, trust or high performance theory is different to real-world experience and knowing what it feels like when change occurs."

Training leaders and those suffering this kind of fatigue about remedies for compassion fatiugue need not be tedious and confusing. With the right expertise and personalised experience in their own helping professions, training professionals specialising in this style of support can fast become essential to minimising guilt and job loss outcomes for those suffering with it. A near certain ever increasing concern for the future, the treatment of this condition will become one the core essentials in healthcare.

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Compassion Fatigue, Burnout Prevention and High Performing Teams By The Leadership Chamber Expert Trainers This training is run for those struggling with compasson fatigue and those managing such professionals. Training is offered by peak performance strategist and clinical psychologist Helen Argyrou and communication to create high performing team expert Sinead Hewson PHD on demand. Various formats are available and more info upon request. see more here :

https://www.helenaha.com/paradigm-shifter/

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