Helping over the Long Haul part 1 | Dr. Nancy Reeves | MC4 P2

Helping over the Long Haul: Preventing Counsellor Burn-out and Compassion Fatigue

Nancy Reeves, Ph.D., Workshop leader, Clinical Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty University of Victoria

Twenty-eight years ago, when I began work in the area of trauma, grief, and loss, everyone in my life told me I would burn-out within two years. Because I didn’t want to prove them right, I spent time and energy finding and developing self-care strategies. Many of these, I teach to clients. I also teach these strategies in my graduate course ‘Grief and Loss Counselling’ at the University of Victoria, and in a number of other universities and seminaries in the U.S. and Canada.

Every counsellor rates self-care as ‘extremely important’, yet helpers continue to burn-out or develop compassion fatigue. In this workshop, we will examine some of the reasons for this as well as explore a number of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self-care strategies. One of these, ‘ritual as a psychotherapeutic technique’, was the subject of my doctoral dissertation in the late 1980’s. I will also share material from my recent studies, in the area of spiritual discernment (decision-making for our highest good).

Education objectives: Attendees will learn
1. The difference between burn-out and compassion fatigue
2. The stressors commonly involved in working with addiction
3. The risks of developing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and ways to desensitize to the trauma helpers encounter in their work, including dealing with nightmares and intrusive thoughts
4. The Reeves’ Energy Management Model to monitor and adjust energy expenditure
5. To effectively grieve the losses involved with working in the area of addiction
6. To deal with expensive emotions
7. To learn the elements that need to be in ritual for it to be psychotherapeutic

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