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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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BHS 155 - Professional Resiliency and Well-Being
Description: Exploration of building human resilience and well-being to prevent burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue for social services and mental health professionals, healthcare providers, emergency first responders, and other relationship-intense occupations. Causes, symptoms, and effects of traumatic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and other work-related stress. Focus on enhancing quality of life and improving a healthy lifestyle by incorporating evidence-based practices in psychological and emotional resilience training, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, positive psychology, prevention, peer support, and self-care, including nutrition, exercise, and sleep. Exploration of strategies that function as preventative medicine to help mitigate the potential harmful effects of highly stressful careers.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Resilience, burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue research in historical context
- Causes and symptoms of work-related stress in relationship-intense occupations
- Stress response and the body's defense system
- Strategies to manage workplace-related stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue, including social connectedness, community building, and self-care
- Professional resiliency plan
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze historical contexts of resilience, burnout, traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue research. (1)
- Describe factors that contribute to trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. (2)
- Explain how work-related stress can compromise physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. (2,3)
- Develop mindfulness and self-relaxation strategies to promote mind-body awareness and equanimity. (4)
- Practice skills to modify mindsets, explanatory styles, and core beliefs to bounce back from setbacks and adversity. (4)
- Define meaning and purpose in work and life to enhance resilience. (4)
- Explain elements of positive psychology and whole health integration to enhance happiness and well-being. (4)
- Identify skills to build meaningful relationships and positive support systems to improve health and well-being. (4)
- Explain ways to improve health-conscious practices, including healthy eating, activity, sleep, and self-compassion. (4)
- Analyze structural factors within organizations that support resilience. (4)
- Utilize key psychological and emotional resiliency skills to address symptoms and prevent future effects associated with traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. (4)
- Create a six-point professional resiliency plan. (5)
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