What type of engagement is establishes, balances, and maintains a connection to a client and the client’s experience and to acknowledge and experience the feelings that arise as a result of this engagement?
What is Experiential Engagement
The mental process of reimagining past events
and projecting future concerns and behaviors –
often in the form of worry or dread
What is Rumination
Developed a narrative that explains ourselves in relationship to our work—and the intense experiences that we have—the autonomic arousal calms, and we return to our window of tolerance
What is conscious narrative
Breaking large tasks down into smaller, achievable goals and focusing on skill sets and strengths
What is intentional learning skills
Acknowledging and allowing feelings that arise. Ask yourself “What am I feeling?”
Intentional inward examination of one’s feelings
What is reflection
Narrative before an intense experience
The process of regulating experienced and displayed emotions to present a professional desired image during interpersonal transactions at work
What is emotional labor
A skill that pays attention to the feeling as it arises, intensifies & fades. Feelings are noticed and allowed; the energy of the emotion and physiological responses will come up, strengthen, but then fade.
What is Attend & Allow
Uncontrollable thoughts related to a stressful event
What is intrusive thoughts
Narrative during an intense experience
A strategy that involves managing your feelings about a stressor instead of trying to change the stressor itself
A skill that allows the natural course of an emotion to take place without fighting it. Noticing and observing reduces reactiveness.
What is Non-Reactivity
Actively thinking about a situation to understand it from every side.
What is deliberate
Narrative after an intense experience
What is consolidation narrative
2 signs of compassion fatigue
Overwhelmed, detached, numb, loss of interest, etc.
4 grounding exercises
What is Guided meditation, taking a walk outside, 5 senses, holding ice
3 skills to address rumination
What is intention, acknowledgement, and Focused engagement
Emotional duress caused by hearing of the firsthand traumatic experiences of others
What is secondary trauma
A state of chronic exhaustion and emotional strain caused by prolonged stress, usually in the workplace
What is burnout