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Panel Session

Disaster and Traumatic Stress

Session: Training Future Social Workers on Methods to Incoproate Environmental Advocacy, Self-care, and Wellbeing

Training Future Social Workers on Methods to Incorporate Environmental Advocacy, Self-Care, and Wellbeing

Saturday, October 26, 2024

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM CT

Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501G

Panelist(s)

Tonya C. Hansel, PhD, LMSW

Associate Professor
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, United States
Kelly L. Clary, MSW, PhD

Assistant Professor
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX, United States
LS

Leia Y. Saltzman, PhD, LMSW

Associate Professor
Tulane Unversity, United States

Moderator(s)

PM

Pamela A. Melton, DSW, LCISW

Professor of Practice
Tulane Unversity, United States

Social workers are uniquely impacted by disaster due to climate change and face increased risk of compassion fatigue. By highlighting risk among these critically important professionals, we offer a plan for the training of future social workers on mental health and environmental advocacy that include compassion fatigue resiliency training.

Learning Objectives:

Explain contributors to burnout, compassion fatigue and the connection to environmental justice.
Assess how coping styles can function as both a protective and risk factor in compassion fatigue.
Describe tailored plans for improving coping styles and compassion fatigue resilience incorporated into social work education.