Acknowledging Compassion Fatigue and Building Compassion Resilience: LIVE WEBINAR

This workshop will explore compassion fatigue and how working in fields where there is over-exposure to those in emotional pain can cause workers to over-use their compassion, leading to exhaustion and struggle. The first half of the training will focus on helping you gain awareness of the symptoms of compassion fatigue, self-assess to determine if you are at risk or currently symptomatic, and how to notice this in a coworker or supervisee. The second half of the workshop will help you create a plan to address any symptoms you may be experiencing and learn skills to increase your resilience while working with others in emotional pain.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn to understand and identify the symptoms of compassion fatigue in themselves and others.

2. Attendees will learn to regularly self-assess their overall functioning personally and professionally.

3. Attendees will learn many ways to increase self-care to improve their functioning. 

Presenter: Trudy Gilbert-Eliot, PhD, LMFT

Trudy Gilbert-Eliot has been practicing psychotherapy in Nevada since 1999 after receiving her Masters of Science in Psychology from California State University, Chico in 1995. She received her PhD in Psychology in 2013. She has worked in many settings including acute psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, and in private practice. She specializes in trauma and has worked with battered women, children and adults sexually abused as children, military members, and exclusively with First Responders for the last several years. She has taught workshops for University of Nevada Reno on various topics, most notably Trauma and Supervision. She also taught a graduate course in Ethics at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Trudy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She sees individuals and couples working on topics related to trauma’s impact on their personal, professional, and family life. She has been trained extensively in EMDR, CBT, PE, and CPT.

Continuing Education Units: 3 CEUs

This training is approved for continuing education units by the boards listed here, as well as by the Nevada Certification Board for CHW, Prevention, PRSS(-S), and Birth Doulas.

*CASAT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6492. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CASAT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

*This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 3 CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

*This course applies to the following Counselor Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC: Ethical and Professional Development.

*Presentation materials are not for reproduction or distribution without specific written authorization. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in our courses are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of CASAT.

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