Date/Time
This training is not sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
3 CEs
Though most people still feel the lingering effects of world events, such as COVID-19 and the changes brought on by our current administration, which affect our ability to practice holistically, these unprecedented times are leaving practitioners and administrators feeling a bit weathered and professionally unstable. What happens when the issues you are experiencing personally are becoming aligned with the community that you directly work with? When you share an identity with a client or group, how can we be sure that there is a boundary between who we are and what they need?
As our profession undergoes various transitions, how can we, in practice, ensure we allow space for workplace grief and mourning to avoid the impending effects of professional burnout? This workshop will examine the social changes that have significantly affected our ability to provide care in direct and administrative services and how we use our identities consciously or unconsciously, as they affect our ability to show up as our whole selves.
This workshop is based on Dr. Thomas’s research and knowledge of the lived experiences of those working within healthcare and service-oriented institutions and is inspired by Herbert J. Freudenberger’s (1986) community-oriented research on burnout.
In this workshop, Dr. Thomas will explore the idea that without equipping organizations to address the emotional effects of trauma, grief, and loss in their work, shifting an institution's capacity without installing intentional care can just result in great workers leaving.
This presentation covers the concept of identity camaraderie to describe the nuanced experience of a relationship between direct service practitioners and their clients, reviews an organizational risk assessment to evaluate the level of burnout experienced by clinicians in practice, and walks through the construction of a plan for practitioners to thrive in the new era of practice.
Audience: Social Workers, LCPCs, and Psychologists, anyone interested in the subject matter
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: University of Maryland School of Social Work
Cost: $70.00-$90.00
For questions, email the University of Maryland School of Social Work at cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu