The Burnout Solution: Professional Endurance And Emotional Intelligence
Every mental health clinician experiences signs and symptoms of burnout at least once in their career. However, most do nothing about it until their career hangs in the balance. Gaining better understanding and learning the tools necessary to lessen burnout is critical to achieving a long and satisfying career. In this engaging seminar, Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., will teach you how to identify burnout, learn where you stand along this risky path and how to reengage with your clients and professional environment. It can be done, and it starts with the techniques you will learn in this seminar!
In this engaging seminar, Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., will teach you how to identify burnout and how to re-engage with your clients and professional environment. He will examine the advantages of building professional alliances, strengthening your determination and honing your self-protective skills through the use of emotional intelligence in your personal and professional life.
Explore:
- Your body’s response to burnout
- Neuroscience of burnout
- Treatment techniques
- Techniques to move you and your clients to a healthier end
Dr. Fox will examine the benefits of restorative, emotionally intelligent relationships in the workplace and online, incorporating social media, like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, to improve outcomes and your personal support network. By understanding the potential of emotional intelligence and using techniques like emotional mapping and positive feedback loops enhance your growth as a professional and apply these powerful tools to benefit you and your clients.
Learning Objectives:
- Create a “burnout – free” organisation; Learn how organisations can prevent burnout and how they can promote emotional intelligence amongst the employees.
- Lessen burnout using emotional intelligence
- Develop greater understanding of your body and brain function when under prolonged stress
- Increase or reignite your love for work and engaging with your clients.
- Strengthen your support system within your professional network and buffer stress and burnout.
- Enhance understanding and application of Jon Kabatt-Zinn’s wellness techniques to decrease burnout.
- Gain greater understanding and application of Marslach’s burnout prevention within organisations.
- Learn the skills necessary to speed up burnout recovery and self-care techniques you can use today, tonight, and from now on!
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.
Course Content
Meet Your Instructor
Personality disorders that challenge even experienced clinicians - borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, and histrionic presentations - require specialised expertise that a lot of training programs don’t adequately address. Daniel Fox has spent over 20 years mastering the assessment and treatment of these complex cases, becoming one of the world's leading authorities on Cluster B personality disorders and their comorbid conditions.
As a staff psychologist in the Federal Bureau of Prisons and owner of Applied Psychological Services, Dr. Fox has worked with some of the most challenging clinical presentations imaginable. His multiple award-winning books - including the bestselling The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook and the Gold Medal-winning Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook - have become essential resources for clinicians worldwide. His YouTube channel with over 80,000 subscribers demonstrates his ability to make complex personality disorder concepts accessible to both professionals and the public.
Dr. Fox's expertise spans comprehensive personality assessment, complex psychopathology, neuropsychological evaluation, and evidence-based treatments for personality disorders. His unique background working in state and federal prison systems, combined with university teaching and private practice, gives him unparalleled insight into how personality disorders manifest across different settings and populations. He specialises in cases where multiple disorders co-occur, traditional therapy approaches have failed, or clients present with high-risk behaviors.
What sets his training apart is real-world application under extreme conditions. Fox doesn't just teach theory - he shows clinicians how to maintain therapeutic boundaries with manipulative clients, how to conduct assessments when clients are deceptive or resistant, and how to create treatment plans that actually work with personality-disordered individuals. His prison system experience provides insights into managing dangerous presentations that most clinicians never encounter.
For your practice, expect to gain specific assessment tools for personality disorders, practical intervention strategies for managing difficult therapeutic relationships, and frameworks for maintaining your own emotional balance when working with challenging clients. His methods particularly benefit clinicians who feel unprepared for complex presentations or struggle with burnout from difficult cases.
Quick Win: Fox's "emotional regulation hierarchy" helps clinicians quickly identify which emotional dysregulation skills clients need to master first - preventing treatment failures by addressing foundational deficits before attempting more advanced interventions.
Qualifications
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Houston
- APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship, Federal Bureau of Prisons
- APA-accredited post-doctoral fellowship
- Licensed Psychologist, Texas
- Over 20 years specialising in personality disorders
- 20+ years teaching and supervising students
Authored Books
- The BPD Card Deck: 50 Ways to Balance Emotions and Live Well with Borderline Personality Disorder (2023)
- Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance (2021)
- The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook (2019, bestseller)
- The Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox (2018, Silver Medal, 2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards)
- Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (2015, Gold Medal, 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards)
- The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders (2013)
Teaching & Roles
- Owner & Director, Applied Psychological Services, PLLC, Spring, TX, 2006–present
- Staff Psychologist, Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- International Speaker & Trainer, 2001–present
- Faculty & Supervisor: West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, Sam Houston State University, Florida State Unive
Feedback & Reviews
This course includes:
- Lessons 1
- Topics 5
- Duration 4 hours
- Quizzes 1
- Language English