SOWK650 Brandman University Spiritual Self Care and Burnout Paper Purpose: Every crisis intervention social worker must ‘know thyself’ and have awareness

SOWK650 Brandman University Spiritual Self Care and Burnout Paper Purpose:

Every crisis intervention social worker must ‘know thyself’ and have awareness of what ‘issues’ may be triggered during a crisis based on one’s own life experiences. Everybody has strengths, vulnerabilities, needs, and areas of concern. After completing the Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers Survey, tally the scores as directed. These results will help to shape your self-care plan.

Directions:

You will write a 5-8 page paper in first person drawing from your own experience. This paper is written from your perspective. Where indicated, it is expected that course materials will be cited and referenced. Additional scholarly sources are welcome, but must be in addition to assigned readings and multimedia material. All citations and references must be APA formatted. Include headings and subheadings where indicated. Be sure to completely and thoroughly complete all parts of each section. Your paper should be free of spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Demonstrate professional demeanor in your writing and critical thought throughout your paper.

STEP 1: Take the Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers Survey, tally the scores as directed.

STEP 2: Complete the Self-Awareness & Self Care Plan as outlined below.

In this plan, address the following providing headings for each section:

Self-Awareness (1-2 pages): Provide an introduction of who you in this moment and how intersecting factors relate to your identity and how this may relate to understanding stress.
What cultural influences have most influenced your ability to identify and manage stress? Was it role-modeling by caregivers growing up or watching how other adults handle stress?
When you feel stressed out (eustress and distress), how does this stress manifest? Emotionally, Physically? Mentally? Spiritually?
Self-Assessment (2-3 pages): Thoroughly discuss the three key areas providing a subheading for each area (1) compassion satisfaction, (2) compassion fatigue, and (3) burnout. Provide a minimum of two APA citations and corresponding references. Each section focuses their assessment focusing on the following key questions,
Introduce concept and your results for each section. Were you surprised? Is this what you expected? What did you learn from this survey?
How do you (present) and will you know (future) when are you at your best? How do you (present) and will you know (future) when are you at your breaking point?
How do you know (present) and how will you know (future) when situations trigger countertransference reactions?
How might the concept of ‘vicarious resiliency’ inform your future work with trauma in practice?

Self-Care Strategies (1-2 pages): Identify 5-8 self-care strategies providing a sustainability plan for integrating these strategies into your day-to-day life. Provide minimum of two APA citations and corresponding references. Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue
Self-Test for Helpers
Adapted with permission from Figley, C.R., (1995). Compassion Fatigue, New York: Brunner/Mazel.
© B. Hudnall Stamm, Traumatic Stress Research Group, 1995 -1998
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bhstamm/index.htm.
This form may be freely copied as long as (a) authors are credited, (b) no changes are made, & (c) it is not sold.
Helping others puts you in direct contact with other people’s lives. As you probably have experienced,
your compassion for those you help has both positive and negative aspects. This self -test helps you
estimate your compassion status, which includes your risk of burnout, compassion fatigue and
satisfaction with helping others. Consider each of the following characteristics about you and your current
situation. Print a copy of this test so that you can fill out the numbers and keep them for your use. Using a
pen or pencil, write in the number that honestly reflects how frequently you experienced these
characteristics in the last work week. Then follow the scoring directions at the end of the self-test.
0
Never
1
Rarely
2
A Few Times
3
Somewhat
Often
4
Often
5
Very Often
Items About You
____ 1. I am happy.
_____ 2. I find my life satisfying.
_____ 3. I have beliefs that sustain me.
_____ 4. I feel estranged from others.
_____ 5. I find that I learn new things from those I care for.
_____ 6. I force myself to avoid certain thoughts or feelings that remind me of a frightening experience.
_____ 7. I find myself avoiding certain activities or situations because they remind me of a frightening
experience.
_____ 8. I have gaps in my memory about frightening events.
_____ 9. I feel connected to others.
_____ 10. I feel calm.
_____ 11. I believe that I have a good balance between my work and my free time.
_____ 12. I have difficulty falling or staying asleep.
_____ 13. I have outburst of anger or irritability with little provocation
_____ 14. I am the person I always wanted to be.
_____ 15. I startle easily.
_____ 16. While working with a victim, I thought about violence against the perpetrator.
_____ 17. I am a sensitive person.
_____ 18. I have flashbacks connected to those I help.
_____ 19. I have good peer support when I need to work through a highly stressful experience.
_____ 20. I have had first-hand experience with traumatic events in my adult life.
_____ 21. I have had first-hand experience with traumatic events in my childhood.
_____ 22. I think that I need to “work through” a traumatic experience in my life.
_____ 23. I think that I need more close friends.
_____ 24. I think that there is no one to talk with about highly stressful experiences.
_____ 25. I have concluded that I work too hard for my own good.
_____ 26. Working with those I help brings me a great deal of satisfaction.
_____ 27. I feel invigorated after working with those I help.
_____ 28. I am frightened of things a person I helped has said or done to me.
_____ 29. I experience troubling dreams similar to those I help.
_____ 30. I have happy thoughts about those I help and how I could help them.
_____ 31. I have experienced intrusive thoughts of times with especially difficult people I helped.
_____ 32. I have suddenly and involuntarily recalled a frightening experience while working with a person
I helped.
_____ 33. I am pre-occupied with more than one person I help.
_____ 34. I am losing sleep over a person I help’s traumatic experiences.
_____ 35. I have joyful feelings about how I can help the victims I work with.
_____ 36. I think that I might have been “infected” by the traumatic stress of those I help.
_____ 37. I think that I might be positively “inoculated” by the traumatic stress of those I help.
_____ 38. I remind myself to be less concerned about the well being of those I help.
_____ 39. I have felt trapped by my work as a helper.
_____ 40. I have a sense of hopelessness associated with working with those I help.
_____ 41. I have felt “on edge” about various things and I attribute this to working with certain people
I help.
_____ 42. I wish that I could avoid working with some people I help.
_____ 43. Some people I help are particularly enjoyable to work with.
_____ 44. I have been in danger working with people I help.
_____ 45. I feel that some people I help dislike me personally.
Items About Being a Helper and Your Helping Environment
_____ 46. I like my work as a helper.
_____ 47. I feel like I have the tools and resources that I need to do my work as a helper.
_____ 48. I have felt weak, tired, run down as a result of my work as helper.
_____ 49. I have felt depressed as a result of my work as a helper.
_____ 50. I have thoughts that I am a “success” as a helper.
_____ 51. I am unsuccessful at separating helping from personal life.
_____ 52. I enjoy my co-workers.
_____ 53. I depend on my co-workers to help me when I need it.
_____ 54. My co-workers can depend on me for help when they need it.
_____ 55. I trust my co-workers.
_____ 56. I feel little compassion toward most of my co-workers
_____ 57. I am pleased with how I am able to keep up with helping technology.
_____ 58. I feel I am working more for the money/prestige than for personal fulfillment.
_____ 59. Although I have to do paperwork that I don’t like, I still have time to work with those I help.
_____ 60. I find it difficult separating my personal life from my helper life.
_____ 61. I am pleased with how I am able to keep up with helping techniques and protocols.
_____ 62. I have a sense of worthlessness/disillusionment/resentment associated with my role as
a helper.
_____ 63. I have thoughts that I am a “failure” as a helper.
_____ 64. I have thoughts that I am not succeeding at achieving my life goals.
_____ 65. I have to deal with bureaucratic, unimportant tasks in my work as a helper.
_____ 66. I plan to be a helper for a long time.
Scoring Instructions
Please note that research is ongoing on this scale and the following scores should be used as a guide,
not confirmatory information. Cut points are theoretically derived and should be used with caution and
only for educational purposes.
1. Be certain you respond to all items.
2. Mark the items for scoring:
a. Circle the following 23 items: 4, 6-8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20-22, 28, 29, 31-34, 36, 38-40, 44.
b. Put a check by the following 16 items: 17, 23-25, 41, 42, 45, 48, 49, 51, 56, 58, 60, 62-65.
c. Put an x by the following 26 items: 1-3, 5, 9-11, 14, 19, 26-27, 30, 35, 37, 43, 46-47, 50, 5255, 57, 59, 61, 66.
3. Add the numbers you wrote next to the items for each set of items and note:
a. Your potential for Compassion Satisfaction (x): 118 and above=extremely high potential; 100117=high potential; 82-99=good potential; 64-81=modest potential; below 63=low potential.
Your score_____
b. Your risk for Burnout (check): 36 or less=extremely low risk; 37-50=moderate risk; 5175=high risk; 76-85=extremely high risk. Your score: ______
c. Your risk for Compassion Fatigue (circle): 26 or less=extremely low risk, 27-30=low risk; 3135=moderate risk; 36-40=high risk; 41 or more=extremely high risk. Your score: _____
SOWK-650
Week 3 Self-Assessment & Self-Care Plan Paper (100 points)
Course Learning Objectives:
6. Summarize how to stay safe and engage in self-care in a crisis situation.
Purpose:
Every crisis intervention social worker must ‘know thyself’ and have awareness of what ‘issues’
may be triggered during a crisis based on one’s own life experiences. Everybody has strengths,
vulnerabilities, needs, and areas of concern. After completing the? Compassion
Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers Survey, ?tally the scores as directed. These results will
help to shape your self-care plan.
Directions:
You will write a 5-8 page paper in first person drawing from your own experience. This paper is
written from your perspective. Where indicated, it is expected that course materials will be cited
and referenced. Additional scholarly sources are welcome, but must be in addition to assigned
readings and multimedia material. All citations and references must be APA formatted. Include
headings and subheadings where indicated. Be sure to completely and thoroughly complete all
parts of each section. Your paper should be free of spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.
Demonstrate professional demeanor in your writing and critical thought throughout your paper.
STEP 1: ?Take the ?Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers Survey?, ?tally the scores
as directed.
STEP 2: ?Complete the Self-Awareness & Self Care Plan as outlined below.
In this plan, address the following providing headings for each section:
1. Self-Awareness (1-2 pages)?: Provide an introduction of who you in this moment and how
intersecting factors relate to your identity and how this may relate to understanding stress.
? What cultural influences have most influenced your ability to identify and manage
stress? Was it role-modeling by caregivers growing up or watching how other
adults handle stress?
? When you feel stressed out (eustress and distress), how does this stress manifest?
Emotionally, Physically? Mentally? Spiritually?
2. Self-Assessment (2-3 pages)?: Thoroughly discuss the three key areas providing a
subheading for each area ?(?1) compassion satisfaction, (2) compassion fatigue, and (3)
burnout. Provide a minimum of two APA citations and corresponding references. Each
section focuses their assessment focusing on the following key questions,
? Introduce concept and your results for each section. Were you surprised? Is this
what you expected? What did you learn from this survey?
? How do you (present) and will you know (future) when are you at your best? How
do you (present) and will you know (future) when are you at your breaking point?
? How do you know (present) and how will you know (future) when situations
trigger countertransference reactions?
? How might the concept of ‘vicarious resiliency’ inform your future work with
trauma in practice?
3. Self-Care Strategies (1-2 pages):? Identify 5-8 self-care strategies providing a
sustainability plan for integrating these strategies into your day-to-day life. Provide
minimum of two APA citations and corresponding references.
STEP 3:? S?ubmit to the dropbox in week three in Blackboard.
SOWK-650 Week 3: Self-Awareness & Self-Care Plan (100 points)
Assignment
Criteria
Exemplary
Demonstration
Proficient
Demonstration
Emerging
Demonstration
Non-performance
(100 points)
90-100
80-89
79-1
0
Survey
Completed and
Integrated into
Plan
Student fully
completed the survey
and tallied scores are
clearly understood.
Student clearly
integrates finding
into plan.
10-9
Student mostly to
fully completed the
survey and tallied
scores are mostly
understood. Student
mentions findings in
the plan.
Student
somewhat
completed the
survey and
tallied scores are
somewhat
understood.
Student does not
mention findings
in the plan.
7.9-1
Student did not
complete the
survey and tallied
scores are not
understood.
Student
demonstrates
limited
self-awareness
and
understanding of
factors that may
Student
demonstrates little
to no
understanding of
factors that may
impact crisis
intervention work.
10 points
8.9-8
Self-Awareness
30 points
Student demonstrates
excellent
self-awareness and
understanding of
factors that may
impact crisis
intervention work
Student demonstrates
proficient
self-awareness and
understanding of
factors that may
impact crisis
intervention work
0
including cultural
factors and stress
factors.
27-30
touching on cultural
factors and stress
factors..
impact crisis
intervention
work.
26.7-24
23.7-1
0
Self-Assessment Student demonstrates
thoughtful, critical,
30 points
assessment accurately
discussing
compassion
satisfaction,
compassion fatigue,
and burnout in the
context of stress and
countertransference
factors.
Student demonstrates
critical, assessment
discussing the
majority of
compassion
satisfaction,
compassion fatigue,
and burnout
accurately in the
context of stress and
countertransference
factors.
27-30
Student
demonstrates
assessment
discussing less
than half of the
concepts relating
to compassion
satisfaction,
compassion
fatigue, and
burnout
correctly.
23.7-1
26.7-24
Self-Care
Strategies
20 points
Student demonstrates
5-8 thoughtful and
sustainable self-care
strategies along with
a sustainability plan
for integrating these
strategies into their
day-to-day life.
Student demonstrates
less than 5 thoughtful
and sustainable
self-care strategies
along with a
sustainability plan for
integrating these
strategies into their
day-to-day life.
18-20
17.8-16
Student little to
know awareness of
concepts relating
to compassion
satisfaction,
compassion
fatigue, and
burnout correctly.
0
Student
demonstrates less
than 3 thoughtful
and sustainable
self-care
strategies and
lacks a real
sustainability
plan for
integrating them
15.8-1
Student does not
provide self-care
strategies or a
sustainability plan
0
Grammar, and
Spelling
Standards
10 points
Well written and
adheres to all APA,
grammar, and
spelling standards
Well written or
presented with few
APA, grammar and
spelling errors
Several APA,
grammar, and
spelling errors
Not well written
and has many
APA, grammar and
spelling standards
9-10
8.9-8
7.9-1
0

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