Burnout and Trauma-Related Employment Stress: Acceptance and Commitment Strategies for School Person.

Catalog description

This course begins with an introduction to professional burnout and how exposure to our students' traumatic stressors can lead school staff members to experience some combination of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and secondary traumatic stress. Next, it addresses how, at the organizational level, schools can better address employee burnout. Finally, the course offers several sessions examining how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy strategies can combat burnout.