Teaching on an Empty Tank: Educator Compassion Fatigue
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2022-11
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Educators who work directly with students experiencing significant emotional pain, physical distress, and traumatic experiences can be affected by students’ trauma. This can result in secondary traumatic stress, known as compassion fatigue.
Compassion Fatigue is the profound emotional, physical, and spiritual exhaustion resulting from secondary traumatic stress. Educators need to understand the impact of compassion fatigue and how to combat it. In doing so, as an educator, you can continue teaching and serving students.
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The objectives for this presentation are for participants to:
1. Understand what compassion fatigue is and how it differs from burnout, how it develops, and the signs;
2. assess their physical, emotional, spiritual, and work-related symptoms of compassion fatigue;
3. differentiate between the various stages of compassion fatigue; and
4. explore ways to combat compassion fatigue successfully.
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