This month at Partner for Healing we are discussing work place relationships. Are they important?
Research from Gallup shows us that employees rating of the social support they get at work correlates with how satisfied they are with their jobs.An article by Kyle D. Killian, Helping Till It Hurts? A Multimethod Study of Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Self-Care in Clinicians Working With Trauma Survivors (Traumatology Volume 14 Number 2 June 2008 32-44 © 2008 Sage Publications) describes that social connection correlates more closely with compassion satisfaction than the amount of self-care does. Clearly our work relationships are central to an engaged and hopeful workforce. Do we do enough as agencies to foster good staff relationships, or do we consider relationships a distraction from the real work?
Then we move on to Social Support Keeps People in Jobs Longer and Keeps Them Healthier Which looks at the various ways we can provide social support within the workplace. Next we consider The One Most Powerful Thing You Can Do to Sustain Trauma-Informed Care, which is reflective supervision. The last article in this series The Many Faces of Workplace Stress- and what how to protect our staff will be released next week. All of these posts have free resources for you and your team. Check them out! And speaking of ways to help your team, Have you joined those who are Making Trauma-Informed Care Real in their agencies? This team-based on line course helps your programs embed the most powerful healing into every minute of programming. It is based on Pat Wilcox' book, Trauma-Informed Treatment: the Restorative Approach. Pat tells us: "people stop me on the elevator at conferences to tell me that my book has changed their life." Now that same wisdom (greatly expanded) is available in an on-line course for YOUR team. Find out more at: Making It Real!
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