Compassion Fatigue And Burnout: Prevention And Resiliency For The Workforce
Course Content
This seminar has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, a recognised leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn resiliency and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue and Burnout. Learn practical self-regulation skills that are critical to your being maximally effective with your clients and improving treatment outcomes.
This workshop is tailored for social workers, psychologists, nurses, counsellors, general practitioners, lawyers, housing and employment officers, youth workers, residential care workers, community and youth workers and other such professionals.
Program Highlights:
- Evidence-based resiliency training for professionals
- Compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious traumatisation, countertransference, burnout, caregiver stress … What you need to know
- Why self-care isn’t enough – the secrets of compassion resiliency
- Discover how to be stress free.
- Become significantly more effective in your work by integrating the simple components of this training
- Learn the 5 critical elements of professional resiliency
- Learn compassion resiliency skills drawn from the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue – the only empirically-validated treatment for symptoms of compassion fatigue
- Learn the skills to sustain your longevity as a practitioner
- Powerful self-care tools to immediately integrate into your practice
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the causes, treatment and prevention of compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, caregiver stress, countertransference, and vicarious traumatisation
- Explain how compassion fatigue erodes professional resiliency
- Implement skills for successful self-regulation
- Demonstrate an increased capacity to remain comfortable and maximally effective regardless of external demands
- Develop a personalised professional “moral compass” for the starting point for professional maturation and resiliency
- Implement simple, yet powerful, strategies to prevent the symptoms of Compassion Fatigue
- Create a self-directed, easy-to-use, personalised Professional Resiliency Plan
- Describe the importance of Self- versus Other.
- Validate care giving as integral component of professional resiliency
CPD Information For Mental Health Professionals
Enjoy complete flexibility with 100% self-paced learning you can access anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Pay once for lifetime access.
Course Duration: 4 learning hours
Certificate and CPD hours: On completion you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion to support your CPD records.
Assessment: Complete a short quiz at the end (80% pass mark), which you can resit as many times as needed.
Lifetime Access: Your access to the course does not expire, so you can revisit key concepts anytime you want a refresher for practice.
CPD Eligibility: This program may be suitable for CPD for professionals such as:
- Psychologists
- Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- Social Workers
- Community Workers
- Mental Health Nurses
- General Practitioners (GPs)
- Occupational Therapists
CPD requirements vary between professional bodies, so please check with your association or credentialing body to confirm you can claim CPD hours/OPD points for this program and what evidence they require.
Meet Your Instructor
Compassion fatigue and burnout that destroys caring professionals from the inside out is not an inevitable cost of helping others - it's a treatable condition with evidence-based solutions. Eric Gentry has spent over 35 years revolutionising how we understand and treat secondary traumatic stress, becoming the world's leading authority on compassion fatigue recovery and prevention.
As President and CEO of The Forward-Facing® Institute and former Co-Director of the International Traumatology Institute at the University of South Florida, Dr. Gentry studied under Professor Charles Figley, the pioneer who first identified compassion fatigue. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue - the world's only evidence-based treatment protocol for this condition. His critically acclaimed book Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery (now in its third edition) and groundbreaking Forward-Facing® Trauma Therapy: Healing the Moral Wound represent paradigm shifts in trauma treatment for the 21st century.
Dr. Gentry's expertise spans traumatic stress treatment, Complex PTSD, compassion fatigue, professional resilience, personality disorders, dissociation, and disaster response. His revolutionary Forward-Facing® approach moves beyond traditional trauma processing to help clients and professionals develop genuine resilience. Having trained over 100,000 health professionals in 20+ years, he specialises in helping caregivers who are burning out, experiencing secondary trauma, or struggling with the moral injury of witnessing suffering they cannot prevent.
What sets his training apart is real-world disaster experience. Gentry doesn't just teach theory - he has provided direct intervention following the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11 Ground Zero response, and multiple Florida hurricanes. His work with the FBI, Federal Marshals, and major disaster relief organisations gives him unmatched insight into how trauma affects those who respond to humanity's worst moments.
For your practice, expect to gain specific protocols for treating compassion fatigue, tools for building genuine professional resilience, and frameworks for transforming secondary trauma into post-traumatic growth. His approach particularly benefits clinicians experiencing burnout, administrators supporting trauma-exposed teams, or practitioners working with first responders and disaster survivors.
Quick Win: Gentry's "perceptual shift" technique helps burned-out professionals immediately distinguish between empathy (healing) and emotional contagion (harmful) - often restoring their sense of professional effectiveness in a single session.
Qualifications
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Florida State University (studied with Professor Charles Figley)
- M.A., Counseling, West Virginia University
- Certificate of Advanced Study, Psychotraumatology, West Virginia University
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Florida
- Diplomate, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress (DAAETS)
- Master Traumatologist, Certified Traumatic Stress Specialist (CTS)
- 35+ years clinical experience
Authored Books
- Forward-Facing® Trauma Therapy: Healing the Moral Wound
- Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery (2005, co-author, 3rd edition 2015, critically acclaimed)
- Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience: Resolution and Prevention of Burnout, Toxic Stress and Compassion Fatigue (co-author)
- Transformative Care: A Trauma-Focused Approach to Caregiving (co-author)
- Unlocking the Keys to Human Resilience (co-author)
Teaching & Roles
- President & CEO, The Forward-Facing® Institute, Phoenix, AZ, 2020–present
- Owner, Compassion Unlimited, Phoenix, AZ (private practice, training, consulting), current
- Director of Training, Corporate Crisis Management Inc., current
- Co-Director, International Traumatology Institute, University of South Florida, 2001–2010
- Associate Director & Original Faculty, Traumatology Institute, Florida State University
Professional Leadership
- Vice-President & Founding Board Member, International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP), 2010
- Co-founder & Co-developer, Community Crisis Support Team of Hillsborough County, FL
- Clinical Member, Several Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) teams
Training & Disaster Response
- Trained over 100,000 health professionals over 20+ years
- Training services: FBI, Federal Marshals, Project Heartland (Oklahoma City), Ground Zero Temporary Mortuary (NYC)
- Disaster response: Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, Florida hurricanes
- International keynote speaker and workshop facilitator worldwide
- Curriculum designer for award-winning traumatology training programs
Ready to transform compassion fatigue into sustainable resilience? Discover how Dr. Gentry's evidence-based methods can help professionals and organisations build genuine immunity to secondary trauma while maintaining their caring capacity.
Feedback & Reviews
This course includes:
- Lessons 1
- Topics 6
- Duration 4 hours
- Quizzes 2
- Language English