Healing The Wounded Healer: Techniques To Reduce Stress In High-intensity Practices
If you're a shelter medicine professional, it's easy to begin neglecting your own well-being and balance. Because shelter medicine is one of the most emotionally demanding practices within veterinary medicine, clinicians face burnout, compassion fatigue and a wide range of mental health problems. This talk, given by Dr. Michele Gaspar of Urban Veterinary Care, will not only review the current literature on psychological issues experienced by clinicians engaged in high intensity practice, but will cover personal assessment and review evidence-based techniques (including mindfulness) and narrative medicine, as well as other resources that have been shown to relieve stress and maintain Read morewell-being. This presentation is part of the University of Florida's Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program track at the 2013 No More Homeless Pets National Conference.
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline), MA
Date: October 10, 2013
Venue: No More Homeless Pets National Conference
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We hope you have enjoyed the presentation. A certificate of attendance in your name will be awarded at the end of this quiz. Please let us know if you have viewed the entire presentation.
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I certify that I have viewed the entire presentation.
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I did not view the entire presentation.
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Empathy is an impersonal feeling, while sympathy is a personal one.
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True
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False
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In what order are the four stages of "burnout"?
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Stagnation, frustration, enthusiasm and apathy
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Enthusiasm, stagnation, frustration and empathy
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Enthusiasm, frustration, apathy and stagnation
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Enthusiasm, compassion, frustration and apathy
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Apathy, enthusiasm, stagnation and frustration
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C. Enthusiasm, frustration, apathy and stagnation -
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Which of the following accurately describe “mindfulness meditation”?
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It is an evidence-based practice that has been shown to reduce stress.
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It is not a proven way to reduce compassion fatigue and burnout.
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It is a secular practice
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It is an inexpensive practice that can be done anywhere at any time.
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A, C and D.
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What are some of the physiological effects of “mindfulness meditation”?
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Reduced blood lactate levels, increased serotonin and melatonin levels, decreased cortisol levels and decreased systolic blood pressure
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Increased blood lactate levels, increased serotonin and melatonin levels, decreased cortisol levels and increased systolic blood pressure
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Reduced blood lactate levels, decreased serotonin and melatonin levels, decreased cortisol levels and decreased systolic blood pressure
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Reduced blood lactate levels, decreased serotonin and melatonin levels, increased cortisol levels and decreased systolic blood pressure
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There are no physiological effects associated with the practice of mindfulness meditation.
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A. Reduced blood lactate levels, increased serotonin and melatonin levels, decreased cortisol levels and decreased systolic blood pressure -
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Which of the following is true regarding “horizontal living” versus “vertical living”?
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Horizontal living is what we do automatically and has a tendency to be mechanical, while vertical living allows us to become engaged in what we are doing.
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Mindfulness shifts us from vertical to horizontal living.
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Mindfulness shifts us from horizontal to vertical living.
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A and B.
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A and C.
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