Helping the Helper: Perspectives and Strategies to Build Self-Care(2HR) Presented by Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW

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Helping the Helper: Perspectives and Strategies to Build Self-Care (2HR)

$32.00

Categories: General Skill Building, Online Course

Course Description

Helping professionals demonstrate perseverance, resourcefulness, and dedication to serving clients and communities. Being a helping professional can have a direct impact on the well-being and mental health of providers in this field. In this training learners will discover the elements of burnout and compassion fatigue. The concept of trauma stewardship will be the theme throughout, as we explore proven methods for managing the stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue that many helpers experience throughout their career.

Upon completion of this training participants will be able to:

Explain the dynamics of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.
Describe and apply at least five self-care strategies to promote trauma stewardship.
Identify at least two ways that a clinician can enhance their well-being and self-care.

Social workers completing this course receive 2 General Skill Building asynchronous continuing education credits.

For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 2 hours of General Skill Building continuing education training.

Course Instructor: Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW,

Recording Date: 02/06/2025

Course Format

Recorded Live Webinar with downloadable presentation slides and/or handouts, evaluation, and a required quiz. The learner is required to pass with a 70% or higher to achieve the CE certificate of completion. The learner is able to reset the test until a satisfactory score is achieved. CE Training Workshops, LLC, provider #1770, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 8/2/2022 – 8/2/2025. CE Training Workshops, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CE Training Workshops, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. System Requirements: Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Safari, Edge on any modern operating system (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS). A desktop browser is recommended. We do not provide support resources for issues encountered using a mobile device. For more information about our policies and board approval statements, please visit our FAQS page.

Meet Your Facilitator

Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas with over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She has held clinical positions as an outpatient and in-home therapist, and clinical supervisor. Diane was an Adjunct Professor of Social Work for 10 years at The University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare, and a Field Liaison and Field Instructor. She has also held administrative positions as a Program Director and Coordinator.

Diane is a popular local and national trainer on a wide variety of mental health and workplace development topics for clinicians and corporations. Diane is most passionate about providing quality professional development to clinicians, employees, and leaders. For fun, Diane loves to spoil her four Dachshunds and rock out to 80’s music.

Syllabus

Introduction

Objective #1: Explain the dynamics of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.

Truths about this work
Reflection exercise
Burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization symptoms
Trauma Stewardship – book, philosophies, 16 signs

Objective #2: Describe and apply at least five self-care strategies to promote trauma stewardship.

Resourcing
The five directions
12 pillars of self-care
Key questions for resilient helpers
Exercise: Dwelling on Days That Make You Want to Come Back

Objective #3: Identify at least two ways that a clinician can enhance their well-being and self-care.

Trauma Stewardship tiny survival guide
Things I can control
Self-compassion
Resourcing: GLAD
Case study: Ms. Z