Videos
Maintaining Balance: Self-Care, Resiliency, and Ethical Service Delivery
“We can’t do this work running and living on adrenaline, caffeine, sugar, and four hours of sleep. We aren’t robots.” In this conversation, Françoise reflects on her 20-plus years’ experience as a mental health professional, crisis counselor, and trauma specialist to provide insight on the lessons she has learned over her career, what she wishes she had known early on, and characteristics of positive and negative working situations that she’s experienced.
Presented as part of the Reflect. Refuel. Reset. Secondary Traumatic Stress Video Series by the Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center.
The Ethics and Pragmatic Reality of Creating Healthy Organizations
“It’s one of those happy circumstances where the ethics of creating a healthy organization is in exact alignment with the pragmatic reality of this. Organizations need to have the healthiest possible staff in order to be maximally functional and to be able to meet their mandates.” In this conversation, Pat Fisher talks about what a trauma-informed organization looks like and how an organization begins to think about creating working environments that are supportive for staff and specific strategies that organizations can implement.
Presented as part of the Reflect. Refuel. Reset. Secondary Traumatic Stress Video Series by the Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center.
A Shift in Perspective: Why It’s Time to Stop Using Compassion Fatigue
In this panel discussion, Françoise Mathieu is joined by three experts in the field of provider impairment to bring clarity to the current state of terminology and discuss why the term compassion fatigue should be replaced by empathic strain.
Presenters
Françoise Mathieu, M. Ed, RP, Executive Director of TEND
Diana Tikasz, MSW, RSW, TEND Associate
Dr. Brian Bride, MPH, MSW, University Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at Georgia State University
Dr. Ginny Sprang, Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky and the Executive Director of the UK Center on Trauma and Children
Feet on the Floor: Grounding Technique with Diana Tikasz
Diana Tikasz, MSW, RSW shares a simple and effective strategy to help manage stress reactions.
This strategy is an excerpt from the Staying Grounded in Stressful Work Online Course.