MOTIVATIONAL PRESENTATIONS ON: CAREGIVER BURNOUT & COMPASSION FATIGUE

Continuing Education: Approved For CEU Credits

Program Description:
A growing number of professionals and paraprofessionals suffer from the cumulative effects of working with suffering clients. These effects may include the signs and symptoms of various anxiety disorders particularly Acute Stress Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, substance abuse, and various levels and forms of caregiver burnout.

Potential attendees include first responders, dispatchers, social workers, mental health counselors, chaplains, coroners, massage therapists, nurses, doctors, and others. Workshops can also be tailored for non-professional family caregivers. These workshops prepare participants to:
• Articulate the developmental history of compassion fatigue including counter-transference, caregiver stress, burnout, alcoholism, addictions, substance abuse, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress
• Differentiate between compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatization; articulate the unique array of symptoms native to compassion fatigue; recognize compassion fatigue triggers and early warning signs
• Outline the current theoretical models for etiology and transmission of compassion fatigue
• Teach others the potential effects of traumatic stress upon marriage, family, and workplace
• Identify and utilize resources and plans for resiliency and the ability to facilitate this plan with others
• Design a self-care plan
• Educate others about the causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment of caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue.

Compassion fatigue and burnout among medical and behavioral health services, family caregivers and administrative professionals has cost people their lives and has cost corporate America billions of human resource dollars. These disorders have had an impact on the critical pathways and therapeutic relationships of clients both in the nonprofit and for profit worlds.

Presenter:
Dr. James Huysman, LCSW, CFT, CAP is a leading authority on caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue and senior and caregiver addictions. A psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, compassion fatigue therapist and certified addictions professional, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Florida International University, Dr. Jamie co founded The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. He is a national presenter on compassion fatigue, caregiver burnout, senior and caregiver addictions and relapse prevention. He is the author of the book for caregivers called Take Your Oxygen First. Among other achievements, Dr. Huysman blogs for Psychology Today, works in critical debriefing and has been a corporate officer for medical surgical and behavioral health hospitals for the past 20 years. He maintains a practice specializing working with professional and family caregivers located in South Florida. He currently runs corporate and family caregiver wellness workshops and intensives for organizations, professional and family caregivers alike.

Program Note:
Dr. Jamie can arrange to have two publications, Take Your Oxygen First and Voices of Caregiving, available for purchase and will include a book signing as part of the speaking engagement.