Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: Creative Self-Care Strategies

This was not a lot of new information but I need to be reminded to actively engage in my own self-care. The comment about "extending "yourself really resonated -  it takes a lot of energy to reach out to patients every day. That alone is tiring and being an active, empathic listener is a skill and regular self care is a must.

Loved this course! Very helpful and learned a lot!

This course was very applicable to my work setting community health/mental health.  Ideas from this course can be applied whether it is a challenge via a patient, staff, or even the situation (ie: covid and the contention associated with it), not only as a health concern).

Thanks for all the tips and clear ways to implement the strategies. The websites are helpful too.

Great course! I love all of the useful ideas for how to incorporate daily strategies for overcoming compassion fatigue. Thank you!

Thank you to the authors for going the extra mile in giving applicable links & references to help with immediate initiation of these ideas.

This was the best self-care training that I have taken. I learned a great deal and will be able to apply the strategies to my personal life and the clients that I serve.

It was a wonderful course and relevant to my current work situation, as the materials and teachings cross over into my personal life. So many reminders of ways to help clients and my own self-care, especially each of us continuing to work and live through the effects of Covid. I will recommend this course to any who will hear. My compliments to the authors: Catherine Tyink, and Christine Kortbein.

Thank you for a thorough review and lists of resources for additional information!

This is one of the best continuing education courses I have done through PDR! Loved it!

Good course. I learned how to deal with my own compassion fatigue.

I like how the self care techniques are listed with web sites and it appears easy to implement these, given the author's descriptions of them. Very helpful to us all, especially with Covid in our environment.

Excellent Course. Clearly written in an understandable way.

The section on self-care strategy -- Positive Psychology was very interesting and excellent research by Dr. Rick Hanson regarding neural networks!

This was a great class! My next chore is to convince my wife to get the nurses under her supervision to take this class, especially during this stressful period of COVID-19 resurgence.

I enjoyed learning techniques for self care, as I often struggle with leaving clients who are having difficulties at work, etc.

Great information, I really enjoyed it!

This was one of my favorite CE courses. The topic of self care is so important and this program provided many great and diverse strategies for facilitating self care, personally and professionally. Thank you.

Very practical and well-organised course which included a great list of resources for future use. Thank you for creating such a fine course.

This was a wonderful course! It's so useful for providers - the strategies provided were both practical and creative.

Quite a wonderful course. I will be incorporating the material into my practice. I work with a number of students who struggle with stress and use a number of the techniques, but now have 4 more to help them combat stress. I already incorporate a number of stress relievers. Thank you!

As a Licensed Psychologist, with a medical background (RN), working with front-line providers (physicians, nurses, paramedics, and other clinic/hospital workers) struggling with Compassion fatigue, anxiety, depression & PTSD, I appreciated this timely and informative course. Therapists are also front-line workers prone to compassion fatigue, certainly a secondary trauma in these challenging times. This course was helpful in identifying how to keep ourselves healthy. Thank you!

I think courses on compassion fatigue should be required education for healthcare professionals. In addition to ethics, domestic violence, and medical errors, I think it is a course that professionals would benefit from reading over and over again. Though all the information is not new to me, the repetition of the information is helpful as it is reminder that it is easy to miss how much a job in a helping profession can impact a professional's basic life structure, health, etc. I think, too often, healthcare professionals learn about or pay attention to compassion fatigue when they are in crisis themselves or are, at the very least, overwhelmed. I was lucky enough to be introduced to the concept very early in my education during graduate school. And I have been wise enough to keep that nugget in mind throughout my career. Knowing the importance of and not being afraid to engage in self-care has been a real boon in my life. I wish the same for other healthcare professionals.

Very engaging with the scenarios and the "try it" examples. Helped to put what you were learning into practice.

Well done. Helpful and practical. Thanks!

Excellent course and very comprehensive.

Great course with user friendly resources in the course materials.

This course was a true gem. It was well crafted and exceeded my already high expectations. Good presentation of theory, hands on activities, and a wide range of resources. Anecdotal accounts enhanced the learning process, rather than feeling like filler. Bravo, and thank you to the authors for a job well done!

Well done! I found this course content more interesting and absorbing than I expected.

Important content both professionally and personally.

Nicely organized and written. Useful links.

Excellent and extremely useful!

Good course, interesting, insightful, even moving in sections.

I really appreciated this course and would highly recommend it to anyone feeling compassion fatigue or working with others who do. Thank you!

I really liked this course. I plan to suggest to some friends that they may find it useful. Thanks.

Great course, lots of information about the importance of self-care.

This course offers useful information that is widely applicable, especially if one is in a helping profession.

Today I recognized that a client was experiencing compassion fatigue. When I brought this up and explained it to her, she felt heard and understood and agreed to try some things to address it. Had I not been reading the course materials before speaking with her I might have conceptualized her experience differently and missed what was most important for her. Thank you!

As always, a fantastic course. I feel that I have better tools to help both myself, and my clients with self-care and weathering the storm of compassion fatigue. This course provides a wide area of realistic and evidence based self-care practices in great detail.

This course was well organized. It provided the reader with ten practical strategies to manage compassion fatigue. Examples and resources on each strategy were easily accessible within the course. I have already downloaded several of the recommendations from the course and plan to pursue them.

Great course! Loved the progression from the self-tests to the recommended strategies, examples and resources. Thanks for letting me take the course. Really needed it working in health care in these Covid times!

This course was really well written and organized logically with many interesting stories and data to back up the importance of each strategy. I think in our busy world with such great reliance on phones/computers/social media these strategies are so important. While I have heard many of them before, the study really motivated me to try some of the strategies outlined in the study and I am grateful for the many links and apps mentioned in the document to help me begin my own self-care journey. I am also going to share the information with family members who could definitely benefit from focusing on their own self-care.

This was a wonderful course that really made me think about my own stress levels and forms of compassion fatigue. It provided great information on a variety of ways to manage/cope with compassion fatigue that were easy to implement. I especially liked the true stories included with each as a teaching tool and real life examples.

I felt like this course spoke directly to me. As an SLP in a retirement community setting, which also includes long term care, COVID-19 has taken a toll on not only myself but the residents and my co-workers. I really appreciate the great resources included in this course!

This course was wonderful both personally and professsionaly. Everyone should read it whether they are compassion fatigued or not. It's  really  about how to live a better life. 

Thank you for this course! Loved it! easy to read and so interesting! Really enjoyed the section on art therapy ... just so helpful!

Great course. Thank you for reminding us that we also need the self-care that we recommend to clients!

This was a wonderful course that has been long overdue. Thank you so much for offering this course on compassion fatigue. More courses like this should be offered for health care professionals.

This was one of the most enjoyable modules I have completed. Good research-based information was presented in a user-friendly manner.

The use of examples and YouTube links worked very well for this article, giving useful examples of humor and self-care as well as providing a break from the reading material itself.

Course was full of useful suggestions

Well-organized course. Good information and easy to learn.

This topic is very helpful in the increasing stress of today's world.

This is a great course! I learned a lot that will help me combat compassion fatigue as I care for my elderly mom. Great information and strategies that will be easy to implement.

A good course. It should be mandatory reading for both new and older psychologists (and others) in private practice.

Very well presented with important information.

Wow! So much more important information than any course I've seen before. Love the many wonderful tools.

This course should be mandatory for all graduates in the healthcare field. Thank you.

This course had so much more than the basic information on compassion fatigue. I am so thankful to have found it. It's full of new things to understand and wonderful tools.

This course had good factual information, but more importantly, had a ton of real-life strategies for dealing with compassion fatigue which could be put to use immediately.

This was one of my favorite CE courses. The topic of self care is so important and this program provided so many great and diverse strategies for facilitating self care, personally and professionally. Thank you.

Very practical and well-organised course which included a great list of resources for future use. Thank you for creating such a fine course.

This was a wonderful course! It's so useful as providers - the strategies provided were both practical and creative.

Quite a wonderful course. I will be incorporating the material into my practice. I work with a number of students who struggle with stress and use a number of the techniques, but I now have  4 more to help them combat stress. I already incorporate a number of stress relievers. Thank you!

 Truly enjoyed and appreciated the content. Thank you.

I really liked this course, especially learning about all the practical and well researched self-care strategies.

I really like this course and will refer back to it often. Such great suggestions and useful tools.

Excellent presentation that helped me to foresee improvement in my own self-care as an at home, 24/7 family caregiver. Thank you!

Self-care and self-awareness in this topic was ironically not a CEU I would have thought of; it was enlightening to find this resources on the PDR website. The information was helpful and empowering. Thank you!

I REALLY enjoyed this course. It was clearly written, well organized, useful. It seemed comprehensive yet not complex. The test also did not test for "triviality" but organized my synthesis of the material so was useful learning as well. I will highly recommend.

Excellent training on common stressors all social workers face, and how to alleviate and prevent them through evidence-based self-care strategies.

This was an exceptional course. Thank you!

Another great look at emotional health, and so thorough. I also like the choice of illustrations and photos in this course as well as many of the others. Thank you!

This course needs to be "mandatory to all!" It is so relevant to anyone & everyone. Very insightful and helpful for ALL walks of life. This should be "bundled up with " Aging: Challenges for Clinicians."  VERY USEFUL indeed! Well done - Thank you!!!

This course really made a positive guide in my life. I am very compassionate and tend to feel how other people around me. I really fit into the category of suffering from compasión fatigue. I now learnt strategies to cope and not to become detach and not feel excessive compassionate about the suffering of others as it definitely affects me negatively. I will use meditation nature healing and separate time to self help self. Thank for a much needed course. I really enjoyed and applied to self??.

Very helpful course, maybe especially as a reminder for those of us who have been working in a helping profession for some time.

Compassion fatigue is an occupational hazard in healthcare workers, especially since Covid. Great suggestions, examples, and resources were presented.

This course was very interesting and informative!

I do not have any suggestions. The material was clearly stated and it provided very useful and applicable strategies to help me overcome compassion fatigue.

Very informative content that can apply to both practice and personal lives.

I believe that this CEU course was quite possibly one of the best ones I have seen with PDR

This one I will come back to and remind myself how to take care of myself.

This course is excellent, partly for the very immediate and personal style the authors use in communicating, and partly for the beyond the expected suggestions for addressing compassion fatigue. I enjoyed following the links for related videos. I also felt their way of presenting information was inspiring and encouraging. Thank you for making this course available.

This was a wonderful course. Well presented with actual references and very useful links. You are addressing a topic that will continue to evolve  as the world's challenges impacts the population. I congratulate PDR for also including this much needed (tool).

Such an important and timely topic! Thanks for offering this course!

This is one of my favorites! So necessary and appropriate given current times. The resources provided within the module were relevant and very helpful. It would be great if more the CE programs provided specific resources like this. Well done!

This was a well-organized, helpful training with wonderful resources/links.

As a caregiver, I felt this course gave me many insightful perspectives and suggestions.

This was an excellent course, truly recommend it for all helping professionals to take. Thank you.