preventing burnout & vicarious trauma
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Preventing Burnout &
Vicarious Trauma
Colleen Phelan
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The work we do
changes our lives
forever- Canadian Shelter counselor who now works in
prevention
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Victim Advocate
Sharing of Trauma
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Typical Personalities of
Helpers
⚫ Rescue personality
⚫ Risk taker
⚫ Driven by internal
motivations
⚫ High personal
standards
⚫ Difficulty accepting
failure
⚫ Obsessive
compulsive
⚫ High level of control
⚫ Stimulating activities
⚫ Difficulty delaying
gratification
⚫ Easily bored
⚫ Strong need to be
needed and help
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What is burnout?
A state of physical, emotional and
mental exhaustion caused by long-
term exposure to demanding work
situations. Burnout is the cumulative
result of stress.
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When burnout might be
something else…
⚫ Vicarious Trauma is a process of changes
that happen to you when empathizing with
survivors of violence.
⚫ Compassion Fatigue is another experience
that occurs when an accumulation of trauma
causes you to simply get tired of caring. Also
called, Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Vicarious Trauma
Accumulation of experiences that impacts us
on every level
⚫ Emotionally (social withdrawal, feelings of
despair/hopelessness)
⚫ Physically (no energy for self, weight gain,
alcohol/drug abuse)
⚫ Spiritually (changes in worldview or beliefs)
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The costs of Burnout and
Vicarious Trauma
⚫ Ineffective service provider
⚫ Violating boundaries in helping relationships
⚫ Withdrawing from family, friends, and
colleagues
⚫ Making bad judgments
⚫ Leaving the field
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Directed Drawing
⚫ Draw a picture with your non-dominate hand
that includes:⚫ Tree
⚫ Sun or Cloud
⚫ Snake
⚫ Bird
⚫ Butterfly
⚫ Flower
⚫ Mountain
⚫ Path
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Symbolism
⚫ Tree- You
⚫ Sun or Cloud- Overall feel, happy, sad
⚫ Snake- Potential danger, evil
⚫ Bird- Freedom, flight
⚫ Butterfly- Transformation
⚫ Flower- Beauty
⚫ Mountain- Obstacle, Challenges
⚫ Path- Life path
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⚫ Stress test
⚫ On the next slide is an image of two identical
dolphins. A study has shown that people under
extreme stress will see a difference even though
there is none.
⚫ What do you see?
Now what?
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Prevention: The ABC’s
⚫ Awareness
⚫ Balance
⚫ Connection
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Awareness
⚫ Recognize and understand the signs of
stress and the toll trauma is taking on you.
⚫ Self Awareness checks
⚫ Practice mindfulness and acceptance
⚫ Mindfulness= keeping your mind & body in one
place.
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⚫ Maintain balance between activities:
⚫ Personal needs vs. work demands
⚫ Demanding work with less challenging work
⚫ Take a break (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
⚫ For meals, exercise, rest
⚫ Spend time with people you don’t work with and
don’t talk about work
Balance
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Connection
⚫ Social connections through community
⚫ Families, clubs, professional groups & faith-based
groups are all forms of community
⚫ Sharing trauma can help
⚫ Spiritual connections
⚫ God, faith, nature, humanity, or your source of
meaning/purpose
⚫ Find your path to spiritual renewal
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Self-Care Action Plan
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But we’re not all the same
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Some of us need to take a leap
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Some of us need calm & quiet
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Some of us like to be with
friends & family
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Some times it is all about
exercise
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What do you need?
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Take a daily break to enjoy all
5 of your senses
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Our senses are the key to
balance
⚫ Sound – our bodies
are made up of
vibrations (music, wind
chimes, fountains, drumming)
⚫ Sight – our eyes are
windows (colors, your
office/work, your home, shapes
and symbols)
⚫ Taste – impacted by
smell (food, cooking, drink)
⚫ Smell – lives in the
limbic system (aromatherapy, flowers, soap,
detergent, deodorant, perfume)
⚫ Touch – the body
remembers (awareness,
massage, baths, showers,
what you wear)
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Creating a Self Care Action
Plan
⚫ What are the activities that you listed?
⚫ When will you know you need to do them?
⚫ Do these activities lead to balance?
⚫ Are you feeding your connections?
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Developing your own care plan
⚫ Relax and seek
solitude
⚫ Eat healthy foods
⚫ Tend to your spirit
⚫ Praise yourself
⚫ Enjoy yourself
⚫ Sleep well
⚫ Self-reflect
⚫ Practice deep
breathing
⚫ Journaling
⚫ Read for pleasure
⚫ Say “no” more often
⚫ Cry
⚫ Smile
⚫ Exercise
⚫ Spend time with
animals
⚫ Take vacations
⚫ Laugh
⚫ Sand trays
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Self Care Plan
Time to write it all down
Keep in mind:
Awareness
Balance
Connection
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Make Someone’s Day
⚫ Sometimes the best way to support yourself
is to support those around you!
⚫ Do something special for someone around
you.
⚫ When was the last type you wrote and mailed
a thank you card or letter?
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The work we do
changes our lives
forever
Remember…