MPY767 Practitioner Resilience and Burnout Prevention for Therapists (2 cr.)

This course will cover the topics of burnout and resilience development as they relate to the mental health field. The course will examine scholarly research to identify factors that contribute to burnout and interventions that help to address burnout and promote resilience. The course will also have an experiential component through which students will practice and apply concepts and strategies related to resilience development and burnout prevention. By the end of the course, the students will have developed an individualized resilience plan.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Define resilience and burnout.
2. Identify the factors that contribute to burnout and resilience.
3. Describe challenges that a therapist may experience working toward burnout prevention and resilience development.
4. Identify specific strategies that could be used to prevent burnout and promote resilience.
5. Develop a personalized resilience development plan.