Beyond Balance Counselling And Consulting

Individual counselling, couples therapy, Workshops on Work related stress, Burnout and Compassion fatigue and Self-care for helping professionals

Compassion fatigue is a term used to describe a unique form of emotional burnout that may
result from our close emotional contact with other people’s emotional pain, stress and trauma.
This presentation will include an overview of literature describing how helping professionals
can be impacted by their work, including:

o Discussion of the concepts of compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and
vicarious trauma
o The difference between burnout and compassion fatigue
o The science involved in the transmission of emotion between people
o Signs of compassion fatigue
o Risk and protective factors
o Self assessment tools and self-care plans
o Practical strategies that promote resiliency and self-care at the individual,
professional group and organizational level