Description

As a clinician, you have an ethical responsibility to practice self-care for both the wellbeing of your patients and you. However, focusing your energy on the care for others may lead to self-neglect and burnout.

This micro-course provides foundational knowledge on the ethical principles of self-care by introducing evidence-based strategies for personal and professional growth for counselors and professional helpers.

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this micro-course, you will be able to:

Explore and recall the importance of self-love, care and compassion for counselors and professional helpers.
Engage in pre- and post- self-evaluation to aid in developing person-centered meanings for self-care and self-compassion
Apply self-care and self-compassion practices using case scenarios to strengthen clinical professional growth.

Eligibility

Must be 18 or older

Refund Policy

You will have 24 hours to request a full refund after purchase. A refund will not be issued if you have already earned the course badge or certificate, or if more than 25% of the course content has been completed.

Faculty Bio

Veronica Wanzer, Ph.D

Veronica M. Wanzer, Ph.D, LCPC, also known as Dr. V, a native New Yorker, has served as a counselor and clinical supervisor in Maryland for ten+ years. Dr. V graduated with a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from Walden University. Her dissertation focused on counselor competence with gender diverse clients. Immediately following graduation, she continued her journey as a counselor educator teaching in both Online and traditional Master’s-level counseling programs across the country, engaging with counseling students worldwide!

Dr. V’s research interests include issues of social justice, counselor competence, and counselor professional identity. To disseminate this work, Dr. V presents at various counseling and interdisciplinary conferences on a yearly basis, including the American Counseling Association (ACA) and the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE) national conferences. She is currently engaged in various innovative research, social change projects, and publication efforts focused on social change and counseling at an international level. She published her first peer-reviewed article in the Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling.

Curriculum

Why Practice Self-Care and Self-Compassion?
Why is the practice of self-care and self-compassion important for helping professionals? In fact, professional ethical standards in counseling establish principles for professional wellness. This first lesson reviews these ethical standards, some key terms you will need to know, and offers a pre-assessment to get you started.
Explore: Life with and Without Self-Care
What are the consequences of self-care? This lesson explores the negative consequences of avoiding this responsibility as well as the positive consequences of embracing it.
Clinical Internal Self-Care Dialogue
This lesson takes a deeper look at how counseling others can take a toll on our clinical identity, specifically our internal dialogue about much needed self-care.
Creating Conditions for Self-Care
To increase resilience and posttraumatic growth, counselors ensure physical, emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal balance and continual self-examination to ensure these components are present and actively balanced. Self-care in all areas of wellness is an optimal way to create balance!
Developing and Implementing a Self-Care Plan
Now that we've evaluated essential areas related to self-care and learned about the necessary internal and external conditions for self-care! It's time to develop a plan.

Accreditation

Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4546. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Successful completion of this micro-course provides 1 NBCC clock hour; partial credit will not be offered.

ACEP contact information:

100 Washington Ave. S Suite 1210, Minneapolis MN, 55401
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.waldenu.edu