Strengthening Helping Professionals: Ethics, Resilience, & Attachment-Informed Approaches- Webinar

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Description

In 2022, 46% of helping professionals reported feeling burned out often or very often, an increase from 32% in 2018. These professionals enter the field with a deep desire to support others. Yet this very strength can become a vulnerability when professional boundaries blur, self-care is deprioritized, and emotional overwhelm sets in. This presentation invites participants to reflect on how their personal attachment patterns may influence their work with clients, their relationships with colleagues, and their ability to care for themselves. Professionals will explore how to set healthier boundaries, maintain emotional resilience, and develop a sustainable self-care plan. Participants will also learn how to recognize signs of professional burnout, maintain balance, engage in proactive supervision and peer support, create a plan to promote long-term well-being, and reconnect with their purpose.

Presenter

Doug Smith, BS, CADC II, has 22 years of experience working in behavioral health services, including serving as a direct clinician, clinical director, and director of clinical development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Eastern Oregon University and is a certified alcohol and drug counselor, level two. Smith has pioneered numerous modern approaches to treatment services, including the development of new patient-centered treatment models. He developed the Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy (EABT) model and speaks nationally to professionals in the field about its positive outcomes. Smith is the recipient of the Oregon Association of Addiction Professionals’ 2023 Innovator of the Year Award as well as the 2018 Addiction Professional of the Year Community Service Award. He is a member of the Oregon NAADAC Board, serves on the NAADAC- LGBTQIA2S+ committee, and is also a NAADAC-approved education provider.

Learning Objectives

• Participant will be able to describe the benefits and risks of their professional boundaries.
• Participants will be able to evaluate their self-care for continuous improvement to maintain self-monitoring.
• Participants will be able to identify impairment in any part of their professional performance and seek appropriate professional assistance.

Content Level

All Levels.

• Beginning level courses introduce learners to a content area; include information about a condition, treatment method, or issue; and involve learning and comprehending content.
• Intermediate level courses provide information that builds on knowledge practitioners with some experience already have. These courses focus on skill-building or adding knowledge, possibly following a brief overview of basic information, and involve using information in concrete situations and understanding the underlying structure of the material.
• Advanced level courses provide content for participants who have been working in the content area and have a clear understanding of the issues. These courses cover and address the complexities involved in the work and involve synthesizing material to create new patterns or structures or evaluating material for a specific purpose.