(Fulfills training requirement for the Green Cross Compassion Fatigue Therapist Certification)

When: Saturday, March 7, 2020

8:30am -5:00pm (lunch on your own)

Where: Richmont Graduate University- Atlanta Campus, 1900 The Exchange SE, Bldg. 100, Atlanta, GA 30339

Continuing Education: 6 CE Credits Awarded. Partial attendance is not awarded.

Certification Criteria:  This course satisfies the criteria for Compassion Fatigue Therapist Certification.

Pre-requisite:  Compassion Stress Management or it’s equivalent

Target Audience: Clinical Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychologists, Students, Emergency Responders, Humanitarian Aid Workers, Pastors and Short/Long Term Missionaries Working with Traumatized Populations.

Instruction Level: Intermediate

Fees:

• Richmont Students= $90.00
• Professionals= $130.00

Presenter: Vanessa Snyder, Ph.D

Dr. Vanessa Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Traumatologist, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She is a 2008 graduate as well as the VP of the Institute of Trauma and Recovery at Richmont Graduate University. She received her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Regent University in VA. Her areas of research interests include: trauma in families, sexual abuse and trauma, trauma treatment with play/art therapy, assessment in treatment of adults who experience trauma/complex trauma, secondary traumatic stress, complex trauma model protocol used for human trafficking and dissociative disorders.

Topic: This workshop will enable each course participant to effectively build a therapeutic alliance and focus on the professional’s current self-care status, building a commitment to wellness and the motivation to fundamentally transform his or her work life style. This transformation to wellness includes but is not limited to teaching effective compassion stress management methods for both containment/control of unwanted distress and finding and applying effective desensitization methods in therapy.

Learning Objectives: As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Utilize an array of assessment instruments and structured interview to create a compassion fatigue recovery plan for client/peer
• Initiate and manage course of evidence-based treatment with caregivers suffering from compassion fatigue symptoms
• Demonstrate how the treatment is effective in mitigating both secondary traumatic stress and burnout symptoms of compassion fatigue
• Teach self and client arousal reduction, grounding and containment skills
• Help clients to identify and utilize resources and plan for resiliency and prevention for self and ability to facilitate this plan with others
• Identify what is required to create and maintain a self care plan for self and others
• Discuss what is required to facilitate a self-care plan for self and others
• Provide psychoeducation on the causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment of compassion fatigue
• Use effective strategies for incorporating the Academy of Traumatology Standards of Practice and Ethics and Standards of Self Care into treatment and consultation practices
• Explain the developmental history of compassion fatigue including countertransference, caregiver stress, burnout, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.

Agenda:

Part I: Challenges of Treating the Traumatized Practitioner

Part II: Overview of the Assessment for Compassion Fatigue

Part III: Overview of the MASTERS Approach to Wellness Transformation

Part IV: Personality, Psychological Readiness, and other Factors in Wellness Preparation

Part V:  The Customer Personality Approach
Lunch
Part VI: Application: Assessment of Self Care, Wellness, and Readiness for Compassion Fatigue   Treatment

Part VII: Identifying Areas Preventing Wellness Transformation

Part VIII: Overview and Demonstration of Compassion Fatigue Desensitization Options

Part IX: Remission Prevention and Stress Management Program Development

Part X:  Application of Wellness Transformation to Various Contexts

Part XI: Training and Supervision Issues

Q&A and Course/Instructor Evaluation

Registration: Click HERE

For questions about registration or Continuing Education, please contact Martha Busby at mbusby@richmont.edu.

Refunds: Refund requests must be received prior to February 28, 2020 in order to receive a full refund, otherwise there will be a late fee.

There is no known commercial support for this program.

Richmont Graduate University has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4534. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Richmont Graduate University is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Richmont Graduate University is approved by the American Psychologist Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Richmont Graduate University maintains responsibility for this program and its content.