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Resiliency and Compassion Satisfaction

Take a look at this graph, which shows the ability to perform at increasing stress levels. As shown by the red and blue dotted lines, resilient individuals can have enhanced performance at a given stress level.

If you are doing this course, you are already shifting toward resiliency!

Russo SJ, Murrough JW, Han MH, Charney DS, & Nestler EJ. 2012. Neurobiology of resilience. Nature Neuroscience 15 (11): 1475-1484.

Keep in mind, resiliency continues to be dynamic and modifiable throughout one’s career and informs Compassion Satisfaction, feeling content in one’s work.

Compassion Satisfaction can be augmented by several factors:

• Social support
  
  
• Supportive supervision
  
  
• Use of evidence based practices that inform agency
  
  
• Workload balance between trauma and other cases
  
  
• Reflection for meaning and purpose
  
  
• Self-care activities

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