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CCMH515CA Week 6: Professional Relationships, Clinical Supervision and Self-care

CCMH515CA Week 6: Burnout and compassion fatigue can be common in the counseling field if proper self-care is not maintained. This assignment will help students to gain a better understanding of ethical responses regarding counselor self-care, supervision and consultation, and collaboration with other human service professionals.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper that describes the importance of counselor self-care. Include the following:

The importance of self-care
Ways to ensure self-care
Methods for preventing compassion fatigue
Methods for incorporating proper clinical supervision
Methods for appropriate collaboration and consultation with colleagues and other human services professionals.

Format your paper according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.