Self-care & burnout prevention in the practice team

Self-care and burnout prevention for practice teams: understanding stress, recognising warning signs, setting boundaries and strengthening resources – online course.

Online self-study course – 8 modules, approx. 8 hours, at your own pace, with a confirmation of participation after working through all modules. Sources in APA 7 style.

The course leads from the stresses of everyday practice, via the stress response and burnout warning signs according to the WHO, to resilience, saying no, breaks and sleep, compassion fatigue and self-care as a team culture.

This course is part of the e-learning flat rate – one year of access to all self-study courses.Unlock flat rate →

Self-study without supervision, assignments or assessment of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.

What this course covers

1Why self-care? Pressures in everyday practice

2What stress is – and what happens in the body

3Recognising warning signs & burnout phases

4Strengthening resources & resilience

5Setting boundaries & saying no

6Recovery, breaks & sleep – regeneration

7Emotional stress & compassion fatigue

8Self-care as team culture & concept

Learning objectives

What you will learn

You can explain why self-care is a professional competence and not selfishness, and you know how this course is structured.

You can distinguish in professional terms between mental stress, mental strain and stress as a state of activation and explain why the personal appraisal of a situation helps to determine whether stress arises.

You can explain how the World Health Organization describes burnout, why it is classified as an occupational phenomenon and not as a medical condition, and which three dimensions characterise it.

You can define resilience and resources in professional terms and explain why resilience is understood as dynamic and changeable – and not as a fixed character trait.

You can explain why boundaries are not a sign of unfriendliness but of self-respect and reliability, and distinguish external from internal boundaries.

You can explain why recovery is not something for ‘afterwards’ but a prerequisite for health and performance, and you can classify it as regenerative stress competence.

You can describe emotional stress as a feature of mental stress in everyday practice and distinguish between the terms compassion, empathic distress, emotional numbing and compassion fatigue.

You can explain why health in the practice team is a shared responsibility of the individual, the team and the practice organisation, and why self-care cannot be left to employees alone.

8 modules

Self-study at your own pace

Confirmation of participation after working through all modules

Self-care & burnout prevention in the practice team