BHS155 — Professional Resiliency and Well-Being
BHS 155 - Professional Resiliency and Well-Being BHS 155 - Professional Resiliency and Well-Being Description: Exploration of building human resilience and well-being to prevent burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue for social services and mental health professionals, healthcare providers, emergency first responders, and other relationship-intense occupations. Causes, symptoms, and effects of traumatic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and other work-related stress. Focus on enhancing quality of life and improving a healthy lifestyle by incorporating evidence-based practices in psychological and emotional resilience training, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, positive psychology, prevention, peer support, and self-care, including nutrition, exercise, and sleep. Exploration of strategies that function as preventative medicine to mitigate the potential harmful effects of highly stressful careers. Lecture: 3 Lab: 0 Course Content: Resilience, burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue research in historical context Causes and symptoms of work-related stress in relationship-intense occupations Stress response and the body’s defense system Strategies to manage workplace-related stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue, including social connectedness, community building, and self-care Professional resiliency plan Learning