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1. Please Pick Up Your Survey Remember Your CDRGP Code: Remember Your CDRGP Code: First letter of your middle name (if no middle name, write “z”) First letter of the month you were born in First letter of your sex: Male or Female First letter of the name of your street First letter of your mother’s first name (if unknown, write “x”)

2. Compassion FatigueWorkshop 2

3. Workshop Outline • Review • Recognizing signs • Individual coping strategies • Self-Compassion as a coping strategy • Return Self-Compassion Scale and discussion • Mindfulness as a strategy

4. Review • Compassion Fatigue • Burnout • Vicarious Trauma • Secondary Traumatic Stress http://www.clipartbest.com/clipart-nTX8ppBXc

5. Burnout or Compassion Fatigue? Madison Diane http://www.cartoonwork.com/workplace_g52-employee_burnout_p621.html

6. Vicarious Trauma or Secondary Traumatic Stress? • Isabella • Jack 3diassociates.wordpress.com

7. Compassion Satisfaction and Professional Quality of Life? http://edgewaterchurch.com/thanks-for-raising-hands/

8. Compassion Fatigue in Your Placement?

9. Individual Coping Strategies exercising allowing for self-reflection eating right taking time off getting therapy visiting with friends and family mindfulness meditation journaling Birnbaum, 2008; Bober & Regehr, 2005; Figley, 2002; Neff, 2009; Radey & Figley, 2007

10. More on Individual Coping Strategies • humor • having support and meeting with friends or colleagues in the field • self-care plans • stress management training • case discussion and regular supervision Birbaum, 2008; Figley, 2002;

11. Self-Compassion and Mindfulness

12. Self-Compassion as a Coping Strategy Having compassion for yourself when you are having a difficult time, fail, or notice something you don’t like about yourself in the same way you would have compassion for others. http://www.motherrr.com/help/topics/narcissism/thecasefornarcissism • Neff, 2009

13. Self-Compassion • 3 Components: • Self-kindness • Common • Humanity • Mindfulness http://www.kyliedunn.com/2012/09/Day315.html • Neff, 2009

14. What Self-Compassion Isn’t • Self-pity • Self-indulgence • Self-esteem • Neff, 2009

15. Self-compassion discussion As a rough guide: a score of 1-2.5 for your overall self-compassion score indicates you are low in self-compassion 2.5-3.5 indicates you are moderate in self-compassion 3.5-5.0 means you are high in self-compassion Higherscores for the Self-Judgment, Isolation, and Over-Identification subscales indicate lessself-compassion Higherscores on Mindfulness, Common Humanity and Self-Kindness are indicative of moreself-compassion

16. If You Didn’t Get a Self-Compassion Score http://www.self-compassion.org/test-your-self-compassion-level.html

17. Self-Compassion Exercises http://www.self-compassion.org/self-compassion-exercises.html http://lisamendedesign.blogspot.com/2013/01/sunday-life-practicing-self-compassion.html • Neff, 2009

18. Self-Compassion Meditation z http://www.self-compassion.org/guided-self-compassion-meditations-mp3.html http://freebigpictures.com/road-pictures/autumn-path/ • Neff, 2009

19. Self-Compassion Resources http://www.self-compassion.org/links-to-other-websites.html • Neff, 2009

20. Mindfulness as a Coping Strategy “Concentrated awareness of one's thoughts, actions or motivations”(Think Mindfully, 2012). • To Practice: • Use an anchor, such as breathing • Notice thoughts and feelings • Avoid judgment Think Mindfully, 2012

21. Mindfulness Exercise http://thinkmindfully.com/turning-towards-that-which-is-already-there Think Mindfully, 2012

22. Mindfulness Resources http://www.unr.edu/counseling/virtual-relaxation-room http://www.thinkmindfully.com/ http://thinkmindfully.com/try-it University of Nevada, Reno Counseling Services, 2014

23. Provider Resilience Phone App https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/provider-resilience/id559806962?mt=8

24. For Next Time • Review • Organization / Group Coping Strategies • Case Scenarios • Exit Survey

25. References • Birnbaum, L. (2008). The use of mindfulness training to create an ‘accompanying place’ for • social work students. Social Work Education, 27(8), 837-852. • Bober, T. & Regehr, C. (2005). Strategies for reducing or recognizing vicarious • trauma: Do they work? Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 6(1), 1-9 • Bourassa, D. B. & Clements, J. (2002). Supporting ourselves: Groupwork • interventions for compassion fatigue. Groupwork, 20(2), 7-23. • Dane, B. & Chachkes, E. (2001). The cost of caring for patients with an illness. Social Work • in Healthcare, 33(2), 31-51. • Figley, C. R. (1999). Compassion fatigue: Toward a new understanding of the costs of • caring. In B. H. Stamm (Ed.), Secondary traumaticstress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, • and educators (2nd ed., pp. 3-28). Lutherville, MD: Sidran. • Figley, R. R. (2002). Compassion fatigue: Psychotherapists’ chronic lack of self- • care. Psychotherapy in Practice, 58(11), 1433 – 1441.

26. Hendrikson, E. J. (2013). Understanding how victim advocates view organizational peer support groups to reduce or prevent • compassion fatigue.(Thesis). Retrieved from Proquest. • Neff, K. (2009). What is self-compassion? Retrieved from http://www.self-compassion.org/what-is-self-compassion/definition-of-self- • compassion.html • National Center for Telehealth and Technology. (2014). Provider resilience. Retrieved from https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/provider- • resilience/id559806962?mt=8 • Noushadd, P. P. (2008). From teacher burnout to student burnout. Retrieved from newtrier.k12.il.us • ProQOL.org. (2014). Professional quality of life elements, theory and measurement. Retrieved from • http://www.proqol.org/Home_Page.php • Radey, M. & Figley, C. R. (2007). The social psychology of compassion. Clinical Social Work Journal, 35, 207-214. • Shannon, P. J., Simmelink-McCleary, J., Im, H., Becher, E. & Crook-Lyon, R. E. (2014). Developing self-care practices in a trauma • treatment course. Journal of Social Work Education, 50, 440-453. • Stamm, B.H. (2010). The Concise ProQOL Manual, 2nd Ed. Pocatello, ID:ProQOL.org. • Think Mindfully. (2012). What is mindfulness? Retrieved from • http://www.unr.edu/counseling • University of Nevada, Reno Counseling Services. (2014). Counseling services. Retrieved • from http://www.unr.edu/counseling