Come to beautiful Black Mountain, North Carolina to be enriched -- personally and professionally. The season of change will change you. You, in turn, will enable others to transform.
Friday, October 1
Compassion Fatigue Educator - Instructor: Charles R. Figley, PhD
Purpose: Prepare you for educating colleagues about vicarious trauma from working with the suffering.
Audience: Anyone working with or wish to work with helpers who are experiencing burnout, vicarious trauma, or compassion fatigue (first responders, journalists, teachers, counselors, nurses and others)
Objectives: (1) Knowledge of the history, definitions, research, theory, and assessment of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. (2) Awareness of the affects of your work. (3) Strategies for avoiding compassion fatigue and recovering from it. (4) Skill in educating and preparing others in the above knowledge, awareness, and skills.
Certification: Compassion Fatigue Educator and eligible to complete the Compassion Fatigue Therapist Certification.
Saturday-Sunday, October 2-3
Compassion Fatigue Therapist - Instructor: Charles R. Figley, PhD
Purpose: Prepare you for treating colleagues with compassion fatigue and facilitating a transformation to wellness.
Prerequisite: Compassion Fatigue Educator
Audience: Mental health practitioners who counsel or wish to counsel helpers suffering from work-related PTSD, burnout, vicarious trauma, or compassion fatigue. Such clients may include first responders, journalists, teachers, other counselors, nurses and others).
Objectives: (1) Knowledge of helping professional burnout, countertransference, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue symptoms, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options. (2) Knowledge and the experience of the YOUTOO! MASTERS © transformative process for wellness. (3) Skill in educating and preparing other therapist in the above knowledge, awareness, and skills.
Certification: Compassion Fatigue Therapist
Saturday-Sunday, October 2-3
Field Traumatologist - Instructor: Kathleen Regan Figley, MS, MT
Purpose: Prepare you to provide crisis intervention during and immediately following a traumatic event.
Audience: Anyone working with people in crisis during or immediately following a critical incident (first responders, journalists, teachers, counselors, nurses and others)
Objectives: (1) Knowledge about the basics of traumatology – history, research, theory, assessment, and treatment—for the purpose of acute care and referral. (2) Knowledge of and skill in applying the Homeland Security-FEMA Incident Command structure. (3) Awareness of the phases, signs, symptoms, and manifestations of traumatic stress reactions and the array of immediate and long-term services and methods for mitigating or preventing long-term problems. (4) Skill in providing peer support, methods for stress management, defusing, debriefing, and other crisis-oriented assistance.
Certification: Field Traumatologist and eligible to begin the Certified Traumatologist Certification.
COMPLETION OF EACH OF THESE COURSES LEADS TO CERTIFICATION VIA THE ACADEMY OF TRAUMATOLOGY (
www.traumatologyacademy.org).
Upon receipt of your registration form, you will receive a registration packet with complete details. If you have questions our website, or call our office: 850-656-7158.
LODGING INFORMATION: Lodging is not included in the course registration fee. See the brochure for information about overflow motels in the area:
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MEALS: Meals tickets will be offered on site through the YMCA - payable to the YMCA. Persons staying off campus will pay for lunch only. Meal tickets are available for breakfast, lunch and dinner also. Meal tickets are not included in the course registration fee.
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