Name
Moving Beyond Individual Responsibility for Self Care: Advancing Provider-, Team-, and Care Systems- Approaches to Mitigate Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
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 across multiple systems levels (provider, team, care systems) to prevent and/or mitigate it, will be shared. 

Speakers
Tai Mendenhall PhD, LMFT, Professor, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul,
Tai Mendenhall
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Early Career Professionals, Self-care/Self-management, Workforce development
Session Type
Concurrent
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 strategies practiced at the individual provider level (e.g., sleep hygiene, exercise).
Objective 3
describe team-based efforts (e.g., peer support, team huddles, community building) and responsive care system structures (e.g., strategic sequencing of work tasks, innovative charting and documentation platforms, peer/group supervision) essential to preventing / mitigating burnout and compassion fatigue.
Content Reference 1

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

Content Reference 2

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 3

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 4

Pope-Ruark, R. (2022). Unraveling faculty burnout: Pathways to reckoning and renewal. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Content Reference 5

Hester, S., & Denker, K. (2023). Beyond burnout: Gaming, glowing, and building feminist mentor community. In J. Pauly, S. Munz, and L. Hernandez (Eds.), Feminist Mentoring in Academia (pp.121-142). Lexington Books.