Coping with Stress and Compassion Fatigue in Health Center Settings
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Webinar #1: Slides | Recording
Webinar #2: Slides | Recording
Webinar #1 Description:
In the first part of this two-webinar series, the National Center for Health in Public Housing hosted a webinar on coping with stress and compassion fatigue in health center settings. Although the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated stress symptoms in primary care settings, a healthcare professional may face stress on the job under usual conditions due to long shifts, competing responsibilities, and witnessing or hearing about difficult patient experiences. This webinar described how compassion fatigue affect all health care workers, how to determine the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and provide management and self-help tools to help negate and avoid re-occurrence of severe fatigue.
Webinar #2 Description:
In the second part of this two-webinar series, the National Center for Health in Public Housing hosted a webinar on coping with stress and compassion fatigue in health center settings. This webinar featured a speaker from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. In this webinar, we explored strategies and ideas to: understand the importance of manifesting safety and self-compassion; learn how taking a resiliency and design thinking approach will allow us to navigate crisis and uncertainty ; practice the tools to develop wellness in ourselves and those we serve alongside during this challenging time.