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

Ethics Training
Written By Pam Hamilton
Bright natural dining room nook with vases plates and fruits on the table.

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 

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Pam Hamilton

Pam Hamilton, LCSW LSCSW

Pam is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, in private practice as a therapist and consultant.

In the therapy room or speaking to audiences Pam brings energy, insight and hope to her sessions. She is a firm believer in people’s innate capacity for growth and healing. Her education, experience and her own healing informs her therapy practice and presentations. She is a bearer of hope and living proof of resilience.

Specialties include treatment for anxiety, relationship challenges, grief and loss as well as support for caregivers. She is trained in many modalities including EMDR, Prolonged Grief Disorder, DBT, CBT and incorporates the practical insights of Polyvagal theory into her sessions. Her current therapy and consulting practice is via tele-health for the states of Kansas, Missouri and Indiana.

Pam is an energetic and engaging speaker who continues to train professionals in areas of trauma, resilience, and behavioral health topics. She has spoken at conferences throughout the United States, created curriculums adopted by the state of Missouri child welfare system, served on the Missouri Attorney Generals Human Trafficking Task Force, and continues to provide secondary trauma consults for Kansas and Missouri’s child welfare workers.

She loves the outdoors, cherishes having raised four children, is an avid swimmer and 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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