Combatting Compassion Fatigue
Riley Co. Public Works Conference Room
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Event Description
This training will explore potential impacts of caring roles as it relates to “burnout”, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma. Participants will review the activities they engage in for self-care, but this training will also take a deeper look at how personal, professional, and cultural factors create barriers in how we think that prevent us from setting healthy boundaries and using our self-care activities. This training will include some personal practice of a few strategies to address these thoughts, will help participants assess their current risk for compassion fatigue and secondary trauma, and will help participants create individualized plans for how to fully engage in self-care within their lives.
Learning Objectives:
1. To identify the roots and symptoms of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma
2. To differentiate between compassion fatigue and secondary trauma and how to intervene with each
3. To identify personal barriers to self-care, both in our external environments and in our inner cognitive processes
4. To create personalized self-care plans that address not only our self-care behaviors, but also healthy boundary setting and self-affirmation within our thoughts
Rebecca Toy is a licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist who received her Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy through the University of Nebraska. She has worked with children, adolescents, and families for 7 years through in-home, residential, and community mental health center services. The majority of her work has focused on trauma, its effects on the individual as well as the family system, and helping families heal. Rebecca joined KidsTLC in 2009 and has provided individual, family, and group therapies to children and teens in crisis. She currently serves as the Clinical Manager for the Behavioral Health program, continuing outpatient service with youth and families as well as providing clinical supervision and program oversight to other clinicians. Rebecca is looking forward to growing service accessibility to the under- and un-insured families in the greater community. She is also excited about ongoing specialization with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and providing specialized services to adolescents with chronic emotional dysregulation and safety concerns.
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