Ethical Burnout Prevention: Managing Impairment and Vicarious Trauma for Clinicians
Cost: FREE
Credits: 1.5 CE’S Coming Soon
Course Description: This continuing education (CE) course addresses the critical issue of burnout and vicarious trauma in mental health and helping professions. Participants will engage in research-based assessments and practical strategies to recognize, evaluate, and proactively manage personal and professional burnout and vicarious trauma symptoms. Through comprehensive tools and evidence-informed techniques, professionals will learn to identify early warning signs of burnout, assess their current burnout levels, and develop a personalized prevention plan.
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Module 1
This module explores the complex landscape of burnout and vicarious trauma specific to mental health professionals. Participants will critically examine the unique vulnerabilities inherent in therapeutic work, investigating how the very nature of our profession creates psychological and emotional risks. The module deconstructs systemic dynamics that inadvertently reward professional self-sacrifice.
This module explores the complex landscape of burnout and vicarious trauma specific to mental health professionals. Participants will critically examine the unique vulnerabilities inherent in therapeutic work, investigating how the very nature of our profession creates psychological and emotional risks. The module deconstructs systemic dynamics that inadvertently reward professional self-sacrifice.
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Module 2
This module explores how to close the stress cycle and gives you a lot of time to reflect on your own level of burnout and how you can practically close your stress cycle. We will brainstorm ideas together for how to close your cycle during and after work as a therapist.
This module explores how to close the stress cycle and gives you a lot of time to reflect on your own level of burnout and how you can practically close your stress cycle. We will brainstorm ideas together for how to close your cycle during and after work as a therapist.
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Module 3
This module explores how to design a burnout prevention plan that focuses on the clinicians values, uniques strengths, boundaries (or lack of!) and circle of control as a clinician. We will also take time to reflect on our key takeaways from the training.
This module explores how to design a burnout prevention plan that focuses on the clinicians values, uniques strengths, boundaries (or lack of!) and circle of control as a clinician. We will also take time to reflect on our key takeaways from the training.
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Course Details:
Course Level: Beginner, Intermediate
This Course Is For: Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage & Family Therapists
Course Format: This is a self-paced (non-interactive), online course. Participants are required to take the course materials and complete a post-test with a score of 75% or higher.
Course Developed By: Allyssa Powers LPCC-S
Bio: Allyssa Powers, LPCC-S, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and owner of Crooked River Counseling Services in Northeast Ohio. She is a Kent State University graduate with a masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Allyssa has dedicated her professional career to supporting mental health practitioners through her private practice and digital platforms. She leverages her expertise to provide practical resources and professional development tools for therapists through her website and YouTube channel, She is committed to empowering clinicians with innovative strategies to improve their effectiveness as clinicians and fight burnout.
Course Description: This continuing education (CE) course addresses the critical issue of burnout and vicarious trauma in mental health and helping professions. Participants will engage in research-based assessments and practical strategies to recognize, evaluate, and proactively manage personal and professional burnout and vicarious trauma symptoms. Through comprehensive tools and evidence-informed techniques, professionals will learn to identify early warning signs of burnout, assess their current burnout levels, and develop a personalized prevention plan.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the signs of burnout and vicarious trauma.
Identity levels of personal burnout and vicarious trauma through research-based assessments.
Utilize research-based tools to ethically prevent therapist impairment.
Formulate multiple strategies to close your stress cycle.
Design a research-based burnout prevention plan.
Course Completion Requirements: Attendees must take the course material and complete the accompanying test with a score of 75% or higher. Participants may retest if they score below 75%.
Evaluation: The course evaluation is linked below. After completing the course, you will need to complete the course evaluation.
How certificate is issued: When all requirements for the course have been successfully completed, users will be able to access and print a personal CE certificate
Links:
Course Evaluation (complete this first to obtain password to quiz)
Completion Quiz (password protected)
Approvals:
Social Workers: Not Approved
Counselors: Not Approved
Marriage Family Therapists: Not approved
Psychologists: Not approved
Continuing Education licensing requirements vary by jurisdiction, are not always well defined and may even supersede the rules of a national accreditation organization. We recommend you contact the applicable state licensing board or accrediting organization for the latest regulations and specific requirements of your state when considering our programs for Continuing Education credit.
Our Policies
Allyssa Powers LLC is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the major mental health approving boards. We will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the Program Director.
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Accommodations for Disabilities
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