- Wksp: Self-Care for the Helping Professional

Catalog description

This workshop is geared towards students who are on the path to becoming helping professionals. Helping professionals who experience work as highly meaningful can easily become emotionally and physically exhausted and stressed, leading to burnout or other types of trauma. The purpose of this workshop is to examine the concept of self-care and its importance in the helping professional’s life. Students will engage in discussion and multiple exercises to help clarify, demonstrate, and develop a meaningful way to care for themselves now and moving into their future careers.