This presentation focus on helping professionals in the caring professions develop an easy and executable care plan to minimise or prevent burnout

1. Workshop
“A care plan for the care giver”
Presented by
Wezet Botes
&
Draw the Line Child Support
Centre
www.childwelfare.co.za

2. A care plan for the care
giver
• Some parts are pretty some
parts are not……
• The only thing that is any
good when fried to a crisp is
bacon
• There are two kinds of care
workers…..
• Telling tales of survival
• Self Knowledge is the
beginning of Self Care

4. Signs of burn out
• Decreased energy levels - emotional and
physical. Tired in the morning
• Withdrawing from people & places
(clients/colleagues/family) Ring tones &
Rainy days
• Decreased productivity but not
necessarily decreased activity. Piles of
paper
• Difficult to concentrate or to care less and
less. Boy with gun
• Difficult to reach decisions – almost
impossible to implement.

5. Signs of burn out
• Physical symptoms, sleep & eating
disturbances, ulcers, headaches catch a
wake, changes in libido check
• Self defeating coping strategies, dockets
ceiling drinking, eating 95 DVD’s
• Preoccupations/obsessions - admin,
rules, areas
• Loss of courage and self worth, not able
to initiate or take risks. Planning out the
window
• Loose direction, feel aimless and
dissatisfied job hopping (running) depression

6. Signs of burn out

8. Contributing factors
• Lots of responsibility and little
control
• Working in a rigid (failing) system
• Superiors inattentive to personal
problems
• Exposed to severe circumstances
• Contact with victims and criminals
• Overloaded
• Bureaucratic paperwork. Grants
• Role conflict damned if you do,
damned if you don't
• Need to make decisions with little
time to think them through F36
• Lack of recognition and reward
financial or otherwise

9. Then we make our own
plans…..
• We can become angry or
distracted the blame game
• We fix things ourselves – if I
don’t do it, it wont get done
• Rigid thinking – my way or the
high way
• Refuge in power not
relationships I’ve got the power
• All or nothing thinking
• Rigid boundaries
• Meet each demand Yes
• Just become plain difficult NO
• Fall off the end of the world
• Into the pit…

10. The pit
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Are you stuck in the burnout pit?
How did you get there?
………………………………………………...
How are you surviving in there?
………………………………………………...
What was different during the time you were
outside the pit?
………………………………………………...
What skills, resources and support did you
have at that time?
………………………………………………….
Name three things you think can do to get out
of the pit?
………………………………………………….
……………………………………………........

11. Monsters living in the pit

12. Recovery
• Rest and quality sleep off button
• What you eat is what you get – nutrition
and balance chocolate
• Exercise, moderate & sustainable kids
• Time management, me time, slow it
down
• Develop yourself, intellectually,
spiritually,
• Connect to good relationships more
often
• Work on your boundaries
• (
) (____) (------)

13. Self care plan

14. Take care of yourself
• Implement RACE
• Plan your work
and work your
plan
• Don’t let anybody
stop you
• If all else fails…
• Thank you