This seminar recording has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential and exhilarating. Join Dr. Michael Rank, trauma and compassion fatigue expert, 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 recording and learn powerful tools (the anti-bodies) that are critical for professional resiliency and integrate them into your practice immediately. Additionally, you will end with techniques to teach and help your clients improve their lives. Let Dr. Rank show you how to recapture your sense of mission, purpose, hope and joy in your career helping others. Objectives: Summarize the causes, effects, treatments and prevention of compassion fatigue that include burnout, secondary traumatic stress & caregiver stress Explain how compassion fatigue erodes professional resiliency Implement skills for successful self-regulation Demonstrate an increased capacity to remain comfortable and maximally effective regardless of external demands Develop a personalized professional “moral compass” for the starting point for professional maturation and resiliency Implement simple, yet powerful, strategies to prevent the symptoms of Compassion Fatigue Create a self-directed, easy-to-use, personalized Professional Resiliency Plan Outline: Opening Exercise “Silent Witness” Viktor Frankl: That which is to give light must endure burning What is professional resiliency? Why caregiving work is “chronic pain” Causes and effects of stress in the caregiving workplace Tools for Hope Perceived threat & the autonomous nervous system Self-Regulation & Intentionality Compassion Fatigue What it is—and what it isn’t? Secondary traumatic stress Causes/cures/prevention Burnout Cause/cure/prevention The four maxims of professional resiliency Intentionality Articulation of intention From reactivity to intentionality Mission-focused living—resiliency and symptom reduction Empower clients with this powerful transformative process Self-Regulation Self-regulation vs. relaxation Parasympathetic nervous system dominance Shifting from sympathetic to parasympathetic dominance for stress reduction forever! Self-regulation—learn how in 30 seconds! Self-Validation From weakness to strength Disruptions and weakening of the self through placating, people-pleasing, entitlement and indulgence Tools for developing, maintaining and strengthening self-hood Exercise: Compassionate self-supervision Connection “I am never stronger than when I am asking for help” Four important functions of a support network Developing the support network Self-Care Self-care assessment Why it isn’t indulgence Refueling—the necessity of “re-creative” activities Different modalities of self-care Application SELF-DIRECTED RESILIENCY PLAN FOR COMPASSION FATIGUE (Rank 2004) The five skills for resiliency to compassion fatigue into an easy-to-utilize self-care plan Implementing the plan Closing About the Speaker: Michael G. Rank, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Clinical Professor for the University of Southern California, School of Social Work, Virtual Academic Center. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF), School of Social Work from 1995-2010. He received his doctorate in Social Work from the University of South Carolina, his master's degree in Social Work from Bryn Mawr College, and his BA in Sociology from Bloomsburg University. He is a Vietnam veteran, having served as an infantryman in the U.S Army from 1969-1970. He spent ten years as a state parole agent in Pennsylvania; directed Family Advocacy and Children Have a Potential (CHAP) programs for the United States Air Force; was a Team Leader for a Veterans Administration Vet Center program; and was a Director of Employee Assistance Programs for Family Service America. He has designed and implemented domestic violence programs for perpetrators and victims, and has conducted many critical incident stress debriefings following bank robberies, most notably for Bank of America (formerly Nations Bank) and the United States Postal Service. His research interests include bioterrorism, compassion fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic stress, academic leadership and reaccreditation, and incarcerated fathers. He has completed an investigation of the experiences of survivors of traumatic stress in three countries: Nicaragua; the Dominican Republic, and selected counties in South Florida which was funded by the Office of Naval Research through the USF Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. He has received grants from the Department of the Army to create a bioterrorism training protocol for mental health preparedness; the Scott Charitable Trust to study compassion fatigue in Veterinarians; and the Florida Department of Community Affairs to provide traumatic stress training to mental health professionals. Michael was recently invited to Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait, to consult with their School of Social Work to create a curriculum with a focus on traumatic stress. He is an internationally renowned speaker and author having presented numerous workshops, trainings, and seminars about the psychological effects of biological and chemical disasters, critical incident stress debriefing, traumatic stress, posttraumatic stress disorder, compassion fatigue, fatherhood, motivational interviewing, and academic leadership. His publications include articles about compassion fatigue, bioterrorism, traumatic stress, critical incident stress debriefing, academic leadership & accreditation, fatherhood, and resistance to change. Continuing Education Information: Price includes one CE Certificate. Additional certificates are available for an additional fee; please contact PESI Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details.
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