Burnout: Prevention and Attention

Marcia Perlstein, MA, MFT

About the workshop

Our work results in gratification as well as stress; moments where we feel that what we do really matters as well as times where we wonder if we are having any impact at all. The cost of caring sometimes is problematical for us as we provide nurturing environments for our clients, students and interns. In a combination of experiential exercises, lecturette and discussion participants will have an opportunity to learn to identify symptoms of burnout and strategize means to prevent and/or ameliorate.

Workshop Objectives:

Acknowledge expectations and needs
Identify symptoms of burnout
Examine how to address symptoms
Commit in the presence of others to experiment with an idea developed in workshop
Lend feedback

About the presenter

Marcia Perlstein, MA, MFT, has been a practicing therapist, trainer of new and veteran therapists in Berkeley and San Francisco since 1967; now in Sequim, Washington. She is also a consultant in areas such as supervision, impasses and logjams, preventing and addressing burn-out to name a few.

Ms. Perlstein is an American Association of Marriage Family Therapists (AAMFT) accredited supervisor of supervisors and a consultant to staffs and training programs around the country for pre-licensed as well as veteran therapists.

Her practice is eclectic based on forming a collaborative alliance with clients and trainees who wish to work together to utilize the strengths they already have combined with the insights, strategies and spiritual tools she might offer in helping them address painful patterns.

About the particulars

Location: Quality Inn, Oakwood, Spokane
When: August 16th, 2008
Hours: 9:00am-12:15pm
Fee: $55.00 US
CEU info: 3 CEUs Cascadia Training is approved by the NASW, Washington State Chapter, to provide continuing education units to Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Certificates of Completion are awarded to attendees at the end of each workshop. Provider number #1975-118, and is an OSPI approved provider of in-service education. This is a "Washington State Approved Clock Hour Offering Workshop."