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This seminar recording has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, recognized leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn evidence-based compassion resiliency and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue. Learn self-regulation—practical skills that are critical to your being maximally effective with your clients and improving treatment outcomes.
For the past 30 years, research has been steadily accumulating to demonstrate that caring has its costs. We now know that working with others who suffer from depression, pain, abuse and trauma have negative effects on the caregiver—many of which are potentially debilitating. Listen to this seminar and learn powerful tools (the anti-bodies) that are critical for professional resiliency and integrate them into your practice immediately. Additionally, you will leave with techniques to teach and help your clients improve their lives.
Let Dr. Gentry give you a fresh start by showing you how to recapture your sense of mission, purpose, hope and joy in your career helping others.
OBJECTIVES
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Summarize the causes, effects, treatments and prevention of compassion fatigue that includes burnout, secondary traumatic stress, & caregiver stress
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Explain how compassion fatigue erodes professional resiliency
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Implement skills for successful self-regulation
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Demonstrate an increased capacity to remain comfortable and maximally effective regardless of external demands
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Develop a personalized professional “moral compass” for the starting point for professional maturation and resiliency
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Implement simple, yet powerful, strategies to prevent the symptoms of Compassion Fatigue
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Create a self-directed, easy-to-use, personalized Professional Resiliency Plan
OUTLINE
Opening Exercise
Tools for Hope
Compassion Fatigue
Intentionality
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Articulation of Intention
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From Reactivity to Intentionality
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Mission-focused living—resiliency and symptom reduction
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Empower clients with this powerful transformative process
Self-Regulation
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Self-regulation vs. Relaxation
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Parasympathetic nervous system dominance
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Shifting from sympathetic to parasympathetic dominance for stress reduction forever!
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Self-regulation—learn how in 30 seconds!
Self-Validation
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From Weakness to Strength
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Disruptions and weakening of the self through placating, people-pleasing, entitlement and indulgence
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Tools for developing, maintaining and strengthening self-hood
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Exercise: Compassionate Self-Supervision
Connection
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“I am never stronger than when I am asking for help”
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Four important functions of a support network
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Developing the Support Network
Self-Care
Application
ABOUT J. ERIC GENTRY, Ph.D., LMHC
J. Eric Gentry, Ph.D., LMHC is an internationally-recognized leader in the study and treatment of compassion fatigue. He completed his Ph.D. at Florida State University where he studied with Professor Charles Figley, the author of Compassion Fatigue: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in Those Who Treat the Traumatized. Under Dr. Figley’s direction, Gentry developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue with Anna Baranowsky, Ph.D. and Kathleen Dunning. The ARP has demonstrated powerful effectiveness for treating the symptoms of Compassion Fatigue. In 1998, Gentry and Baranowsky introduced the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training and have trained thousands of professionals towards this designation since that time. Gentry has worked with hundreds of professional caregivers from Oklahoma City, New York City
and the state of Florida following their work with disaster survivors. He has published many research articles, book chapters and periodicals on the topic of compassion fatigue treatment and resiliency.
Eric Gentry draws equally from his scientific study and from his rich history of 24 years as a professional therapist to provide this program. His commitment to his mission to serve caregivers is evident throughout this program. You will be challenged, inspired and uplifted by Eric Gentry and this unique training experience.
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
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This self-study material qualifies for 6.0 contact hours.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Counselors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Mental Health Professionals
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