Personal and Professional Wellness for the Substance Abuse Professional (15 hours)

About This Course Your Course Instructors Course Formats This 15 hour course by Robert Shearer, David Powell, and Kevin Scheel explores the needs and issues counselors face in order to maintain professional effectiveness and personal well-being in the face of dealing with day-to-day issues in helping others undergoing major life-changes in recovery. With the burnout rate for drug/alcohol professionals being extremely high, it is critical that counselors understand the nature of problems that providing treatment for others can create and develop effective ways of dealing with such issues. Goals/Objectives By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will: Describe counselor stress and burnout – its signs and symptoms. Understand the psychophysiology of stress. Develop a plan for managing responses to stress. Describe compassion fatigue - its signs and symptoms. Take an inventory of their level of stress, burn out/rust-out, fatigue. Describe a step by step plan to