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Caring for the Caregiver

Caring for the Caregiver. ONTARIO MULTIFAITH COUNCIL CONFERENCE GLENDON COLLEGE, TORONTO JUNE 24, 2008 . Presenters: Michael AbdurRashid Taylor Spiritual and Religious Care Services Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario. Caring for the Caregiver. Goal:

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Caring for the Caregiver

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  1. Caring for the Caregiver ONTARIO MULTIFAITH COUNCIL CONFERENCE GLENDON COLLEGE, TORONTO JUNE 24, 2008 Presenters: Michael AbdurRashid Taylor Spiritual and Religious Care Services Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario

  2. Caring for the Caregiver Goal: • To help participants regain their center and seeks to provide participants with tools to care for themselves in the midst of “distressing life events”.

  3. Caring for the Caregiver Objectives: • To learn about Compassion Fatigue • To understand the risks of Compassion Fatigue and its impact on our functioning • To learn about tools to help us regain our centre • To make a plan towards better self care

  4. Caring for the Caregiver Compassion Fatigue: • “A compromise in personal and professional functioning that comes as a result of exposure to clients who have had first hand experience of extremely distressing life events” ProActive Trauma Management

  5. Caring for the Caregiver Compassion Fatigue Secondary Traumatic Stress (Vicarious Trauma) Burnout

  6. Caring for the Caregiver Some Signs of Compassion Fatigue: • Lost sense of self • Emotional Burnout • Conflicts between Role and Soul • Survival Orientation • Image management • Perfectionism • A finger in every pie • Placator role • Hired gun role • Martyr

  7. Caring for the Caregiver Some Roots of Compassion Fatigue: • Institutional • Occupational • Personal • Existential

  8. Caring for the Caregiver Managing Compassion Fatigue: • Identify symptoms • Isolate Causes • Eliminate/modify the roots of the causes • Do things differently

  9. Caring for the Caregiver Getting to Centre… a holistic Approach Spiritual Emotional (Value Clarification and commitment, study, meditation, prayer) (Service, Empathy, Synergy, Intrinsic Security) Physical Educational (Exercise, Nutrition, Stress Management) (Reading, Visualization, Planning, Writing) 4 Quadrants of Self Care

  10. Caring for the Caregiver Spiritual Emotional I am here It will look like I want to be Physical Educational

  11. Self Care New Skills Connection with Others Resolving Conflicts Caring for the Caregiver Planning for the Future: Pathways to Healing – Anna Baranowsky

  12. Caring for the Caregiver Rewards of Getting to Centre:

  13. Caring for the Caregiver The Future: • Making Resolutions • Following up • Marking Achievements

  14. Caring for the Caregiver Thank You michael_taylor@camh.net

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