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Category Archives: Strategies for Front Line
Moral Distress
When We Can’t Do the Right Thing
What is moral distress? In this video, Françoise Mathieu and John Borthwick share strategies to gain clarity about our role as helping professionals working in complex workplaces.
October 2022
Breaking Your Heart At Work
A Conversation About Career-Sustaining Practices with Dr. Brian Miller
Dr. Brian Miller is an author, researcher, and trauma clinician. In this conversation, he shares his lessons learned about secondary traumatic stress, career-sustaining practices, his research into the CE-CERT model.
October 2021
Making Space to Fall Apart
A Conversation on Compassionate Care with Dr. Alana Hirsh
Dr. Alana Hirsh is a family physician and a UBC Clinical Assistant Professor who specializes in addiction medicine and the integration of trauma and substance use disorder treatment. In this conversation, she shares her lessons learned working in in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on the front lines of British Columbia's overdose epidemic.
September 2021
Small Communities & Dual Roles
A Conversation About Self-Care with Kathleen Gorman
Kathleen Gorman is a certified trauma treatment specialist (CTTS) and a Somatic Experiencing® (SE) Practitioner. In this conversation, she shares her work with families and communities in Treaty 6 Territory, Alberta.
August 2021
Peer Support, Autonomy, & Young People
A Conversation on Boundaries with Mardi Daley
Mardi Daley is a certified peer specialist and founder of the Lived Experience Lab. In this conversation, she shares her lessons learned about setting boundaries with young people as a lived experience peer advocate and mentor.
June 2021
Don’t Set Yourself on Fire to Keep Others Warm
Countering the Self-Sabotaging Mindsets of Helping Professionals
Do we need to suffer to do our jobs well? In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, John Borthwick discusses running on fumes and forging a healthy mindset for a lifelong career.
June 2020
Relationship-Centered Care is Better Care
The Importance of Incorporating Cultural Humility in Our Work
We know that a one-size-fits-all approach to care is ineffective but becoming culturally competent can feel like an impossible task. In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, Donna Shanor explores how culture can influence experiences of trauma.
June 2020
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