Self-Care in the age of COVID 19

Credit Type

Credit Hours
1

Cost
FREE

Schedule
Online

Course Description

This course offers strategies for engaging in self-care in the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic and other stressors that have occurred alongside it. Students will learn about how current events have heightened the risk for mental health providers to experience compassion fatigue and ambiguous loss, warranting the need for unique considerations for self-care. The information and strategies covered in this course will support mental health providers in ensuring their practice during this unique time continues to be ethical.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the signs of compassion fatigue

2. Apply the framework of ambiguous loss to current events and experiences

3. Implement self-care strategies to cope with compassion fatigue and ambiguous loss

Course Introduction