Stressed Out, Burnt Out and Looking for a Way Out! Resiliency Practices for Professionals Serving Others

Ethics Training
Written By Pam Hamilton
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Course Description

Service professions do not have to lead to burn out, compassion fatigue or secondary stress, but often do, especially with the added challenges of a pandemic. Although our work is very rewarding, it’s a field that can lead to burnout, secondary stress and compassion fatigue.  This workshop is designed to give you the tools needed to enhance your resiliency, and to embrace self- care as an ethical issue. 

The benefits of healthy stress, indicators of burnout and secondary stress are explored as well as understanding and practicing regulation of the autonomic nervous system. Other foundational practices that both prevent and promote healing of secondary stress will be explored, with engagement from the participants. Come ready to engage and re-invigorate!

3 Hours - Ethics Credits Included

Objectives: Participants will 

  1. engage in discussion pertaining to the ethics of self care 

  2. be able to state the difference between burnout, secondary stress and compassion fatigue

  3. complete burnout screening tool 

  4. identify and participate in specific practices to raise resiliency and treat secondary stress 

Pam Hamilton

Pam Hamilton, LCSW LSCSW

Engaging, informative and applicable describe Pam’s trainings and approach as a therapist, She has invested her life in people, assisting them in overcoming life challenges. Her work as a pastor, and later as an executive coach led her to pursue graduate school to further her understanding of healing, trauma and wholeness. Her work in the DBT department with court ordered clients and people with severe mental illness was followed by working with adolescents and their families. Pam’s recovery from complex PTSD and her professional experience informs her presentations and therapy sessions, creating a rich learning experience for her audiences and healing opportunity for her clients.

Pam’s expertise in trauma and resiliency inform her practice and presentations. She is the lead consultant throughout Missouri to Children’s Division staff experiencing burnout and secondary stress and has written curricula on resiliency, secondary stress, and human trafficking. Pam served on the Missouri Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Task Force through 2020 and is on the Training and Education Committee for HEAL Trafficking, an international organization addressing trafficking in the healthcare profession.

Pam is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional. She has been certified by Columbia University’s Complicated Grief Program, International Association of Trauma Professionals, is immersed in Polyvagal Theory, She studies frequently through NICABM, The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine. In 2019, Pam founded Hamilton Counseling & Consulting, specializing in trauma, grief and loss and resiliency. She loves the outdoors, prefers water over land, is an avid pickle ball player and most importantly hopes she will make a difference in someone’s life through her work.

https://www.hamiltoncandc.com
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