Clinician Well-being Series: Foundations

About the Course

This course provides an in-depth exploration of workplace wellbeing, anchored in research and evidence-based practices. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of moral injury, moral distress, and burnout, with a specific focus on the challenges faced by those in the healthcare sector. The course not only delves into the four key pillars of wellbeing but also identifies unique challenges within the healthcare context to individual and organizational wellbeing. Clinicians will benefit from research-backed insights, practical solutions, and interventions to enhance clinician knowledge and effectiveness of patient care. This course is the first of a 3-part series.

1 hour CE. Recorded video format (non-interactive)

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Course Overview

  • Estimated Course Length: 1 hour
  • CE Credits:  1 continuing education/contact hours for psychologists and social workers / X continuing education hours for counselors and marriage and family therapists
  • Course Includes: video featuring subject matter expert discussion
  • Supplementary PDFs: 2 downloadable resources
  • Target Audience: Mental Health Practitioners, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychologists, Mental Healthcare Students, Case Managers, & Coaches
  • Level of Instruction: Introductory
  • Prerequisite: N/A
  • Instructional Method: Self-paced, non-interactive video
  • Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com

Learning Objectives

By completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the difference between moral injury, moral distress, and burnout

2. Identify the four key pillars of wellbeing

3. Identify key challenges to addressing moral injury in the workplace

4. Describe strategies to improve workplace wellbeing

5. Compare and contrast moral injury, moral distress, and burnout within the healthcare context

6. Identify effective supports that systems and individuals can use to prevent burnout

 

 

 

 

 

 


Course Outline

TIMED COURSE OUTLINE 

Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos and voiceover. This course does not have to be completed in one session. 

COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR CE CREDIT (≥ 1 HOUR)

  • Pre-Course Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

  • Video: (~20 minutes)

  • Video: (~20 minutes)

  • Video: (~20 minute)

  • Post-Course Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

COURSE ACTIVITIES NOT FOR CE CREDIT

  • Participant Evaluation (~5 minutes)


CE Information


Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Psych Hub, #1750, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clinical continuing education credits.

New York State Education Department - Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSED-LMHC)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0257. New York State licensed mental health counselors completing this course receive 1.00 contact hours.

New York State Education Department - Marriage & Family Therapists (NYSED-MFT)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0109. New York State marriage and family therapists completing this course receive 1.00 contact hours.

New York State Education Department - Psychology (NYSED-PSY)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0208. New York State licensed psychologists completing this course receive 1.00 contact hours.

New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSED-SW)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0699. New York State social workers completing this course receive 1.00 contact hours.

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Psych Hub has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7051. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Psych Hub is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Counselors completing this course receive 1.00 continuing education hours.

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Psych Hub is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CAMFT Approval #1000074. Course meets the qualifications for 1.00 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

American Psychological Association (APA)
Psych Hub is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course receive 1.00 continuing education credits.

Experts


Pari Thibodeau, PhD, LCSW, MSW
Pari Thibodeau is an integrated healthcare scholar with priorities rooted in both the clinical and research work. Pari studied at Elon University (BA in Human Service Studies), Washington University in St. Louis (MSW), and the University of Denver (PhD). She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Colorado. In her clinical experience, she worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient health and mental health settings serving individuals coping with chronic illness, end of life, trauma, depression, anxiety, and more. In her research, she studies the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, specifically focusing on the experiences of moral injury and mental health faced by healthcare workers. Her research extends across the interdisciplinary healthcare teams, with emphasis on healthcare social work experiences of workforce wellbeing. She approaches her research from a systems lens, considering the interaction of each healthcare worker within the context in which they work and live in. Pari is an educator and teaches clinical social work skills and social work in healthcare courses at the graduate level.

Thekla Brumder Ross, PsyD
Thekla Brumder Ross, PsyD is an imperfect human, a mother, a partner, a sister, a daughter, a cousin, a friend, a neighbor, and a citizen of the world. Professionally, Thekla is a clinical psychologist, a certified ambassador of compassion, a national leader of addiction medicine, a workforce wellbeing consultant and she strengthens human resources for abortion providers. In her 14 years at Kaiser Permanente, Thekla led large-scale dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based practices and policies in addiction medicine, SBIRT and primary care behavioral health integration. Notably, she developed the national harm reduction strategy for KP and acted as a subject matter expert in patient activation, SBIRT, provider wellbeing & mental health scholar education. She has passionately contributed as an interventionist and co-author in several large-scale NIH studies. As a communication coach, Thekla has worked with medical students in the Foundations of Doctoring program at The University of Colorado. She taught self-compassion with medical students as part of the Colorado Permanente Longitudinal Clerkship program. Since 2009, she had the privilege of leading Provider Share Workshops in collaboration with Planned Parenthood Federation and The University of Michigan, both domestically and internationally. Thekla has served as a member of the PPFA Abortion School Faculty since 2016 and served as a consultant to the Consortium of Abortion Providers. Thekla received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Colorado College and master’s and Doctorate degrees from the California School of Professional Psychology. Upon completion of her PsyD, she attended University of Massachusetts Medical School for Integrated Behavioral Health Consultation and Management; UC San Diego School of Medicine for Self-Compassion in Healthcare Leadership training; and the Center for Compassion and Altruism at Stanford University School of Medicine for a Certification of Applied Compassion. Today you can find Thekla providing strategic consultation to NIAAA, Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research, Psych Hub, Medical College of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood and many more.

Jeffrey Ring, PhD
Jeffrey Ring is a health psychologist, leadership coach and educator and advocate for health justice and equity. For 20 years he served at the Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial in East Los Angeles. He is the first author of the book, Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Health Care: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competency Training. In 2023 he was awarded the Susan McDaniel Distinguished Career Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine