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Self-Care to Avoid Burnout

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1.  Helping professionals often:
  1. Bring their own trauma histories and unique personalities with them.
  2. Bring emotional irregularity with them.
  3. Bring happiness and hope with them.
  4. None of the above
2.  For the purposes of this training, trauma was defined as
  1. Adverse experiences from childhood
  2. Subjective, linked to survival, any experience that overwhelms the person’s ability to cope
  3. Objective, linked to survival, any experience that overwhelms the person’s ability to cope
  4. Not a big deal
3.  Questions to consider when creating a self-care plan are:
  1. What is your core work?
  2. What steals your time or hinders your productivity?
  3. In what areas of your life do you need to ask for help or support immediately?
  4. All of the above
4.  Advocating for yourself includes:
  1. Being passive
  2. Learning to say "yes" nicely
  3. Safeguarding your emotional energy and time
  4. Refusing support
5.  Compassion fatigue occurs when helping professionals are unable to:
  1. Plan a vacation
  2. Delegate tasks
  3. Refuel and renew
  4. Eat lunch somewhere other than their desk
6.  Brain fog, irritability, difficulty sleeping, and an inability to “switch off” from work are signs of:
  1. Complex grief
  2. Anorexia
  3. Compassion fatigue
  4. Vertigo
7.  The wellness wheel is comprised of:
  1. Physical, financial, emotional, and spiritual areas
  2. Social, emotional, imaginative, spiritual areas
  3. Online shopping & social media
  4. Alcohol intake & recreational drug use
8.  It is important to set boundaries because boundaries are:
  1. Useful in teaching others how to treat you
  2. Useful in protecting your self-esteem, choices, time
  3. Vital to wellness & healthy self-care
  4. All of the above
9.  In advocating for yourself, it is important to:
  1. Blame others for your choices
  2. Manipulate the emotions of others
  3. Not accept “No” as an answer
  4. Be assertive by using “I” statements
10.  Organizational change can be achieved through:
  1. Setting fire to the building and starting over from scratch
  2. Encouraging & celebrating staff, never taking a lunch break, and offering work-place self-care groups like yoga or Zumba
  3. Utilizing reflective, trauma-informed supervision and taking a lunch break away from your desk
  4. Encouraging & celebrating staff, utilizing self-report screenings as a part of annual reviews, and day drinking

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