The Ethics of Self-Care: How to Become a Resilient Helper

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Ethics

How can we support resilience in young people if we cannot or do not feel it within ourselves? To help youth develop their own resilience, we need to have a plan in place to support our own resilience.
Think of self-care as your ethical obligation. If you don’t take care of yourself properly, you won’t have the resilience to do your best work. This training will help you understand how connected self-care is to resilience.
Emphasis will be placed on your own ideas of how to live in hope, sustain and support connection with loved ones and community, and create meaning in your work and life.

Your Learning Objectives

Learn how lack of or poor self-care leads to anxiety, burnout, and exhaustion
Review recent literature on burnout and resilience and its implications for best practice in youth work
Create a plan for regular self-care as a best practice in your youth work

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Kirsten Lind Seal, PhD, LMFT, (she/her) is adjunct Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) Ethics at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and adjunct Core Ethics faculty in the MFT doctoral program at Chaminade University in Honolulu. Her research has been published in Psychology Today and in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT). She presents regularly on ethical issues, maintains a completely virtual private practice and is a long-time regular contributor to Relationship Reboot, a segment on relationships on WCCO (CBS) TV’s Midmorning show in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. She can be reached at kirsten@kirstenlindseal.com.