Name
H09 - Walking in Balance: Mitigating Our Risk for Burnout and Compassion Fatigue through a Combination of Innovative Technologies and Conventional Wisdom
Date & Time
Friday, October 25, 2024, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location Name
Presidio A
Description

Healthcare providers – across both mental health and biomedical disciplines – represent some of the highest risk professionals in Western culture(s) for burnout and compassion fatigue. At the same time that they report being wholly-committed to (and loving) what they do, they are oftentimes overwhelmed with the intensity and/or chronicity of their caseloads, workplace and/or interdisciplinary politics, administrative demands, and tendencies to under-report personal struggles or seek help. In this presentation, empirically- and theoretically-conceptualized understandings of this problem, alongside research-proven strategies to prevent and/or mitigate it, will be shared.

Speakers
Tai Mendenhall PhD, LMFT, Professor, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
Tai Mendenhall
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Early Career Professionals, Self-care/Self-management, Training/Supervision
Session Type
Concurrent
Slideshow link
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Objective 1
articulate how health care providers are an especially high-risk population for burnout and compassion fatigue
Objective 2
describe novel ways to promote and sustain positive health behavior change in conventional self care practices (e.g., sleep hygiene, exercise)
Objective 3
begin using new and innovative technologies to monitor and track personal wellness (some for general public, others specifically for health providers)
Content Reference 1

Rivera-Kloeppel, B., & Mendenhall, T. (2021). Examining the relationship between self-care and compassion fatigue in mental health professionals: A critical review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000362

Content Reference 2

Hossain, F., & Clatty, A. (2021). Self-care strategies in response to nurses’ moral injury during COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing Ethics, 28, 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733020961825

Content Reference 3

Ahmed, A., Ali, N., Aziz, S., Abd-Alrazaq, A., Hassan, A., Khalifa, M. Elhusein, B., Ahmed, M., Siddig-Ahmed, M., Househ, M. (2021). A review of mobile chatbot apps for anxiety and depression and their self-care features. Computer Methodds and Programs in Biomedicine Update, 1, 100012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2021.100012

Content Reference 4

Mendenhall, T. (2021). We are in this together: Maintaining our healthcare teams’ wellness during challenging times. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(3), 541-543. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000650

Content Reference 5

Zhou, A., Panagioti, M., & Esmail, A. (2020). Factors associated with burnout and stress in trainee physicians: A systemic review and meta-analysis. Medical Education, 3(8), e2013761. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.13761