Exploring the Connection between Distress Tolerance and Mental Well-Being among Psychological Counsellors: The Multiple Mediation of Compassion Fatigue and Hopelessness

Using earthquake-response counsellors as context, this study explores how distress tolerance influences mental well-being through compassion fatigue and hopelessness, identifying key psychological mechanisms affecting practitioners’ resilience and professional sustainability.

Educational Objectives

Educational Aim:

To enhance practitioners’ ethical competence by increasing awareness of how distress tolerance, compassion-fatigue, and hopelessness interact to affect mental well-being in trauma support contexts, and to promote self-care and resilience strategies that uphold ethical responsibility to clients and oneself. 

Educational Outcomes:
Upon completion of this module practitioners should have a clear understanding of:

1. How distress tolerance influences psychological counsellors’ mental well-being, particularly in high-trauma contexts such as post-earthquake response work. 
2. The mediating roles of compassion fatigue and hopelessness, and how these factors ethically impact practitioners’ functioning, decision-making, and quality of care.
3. The ethical implications of practitioner self-care, including the responsibility to monitor personal vulnerability, prevent impairment, and maintain professional sustainability in line with ethical practice standards. 

Instructions for this Module

• Read the supplied reading material and complete the quiz that follows;
• You have three attempts to pass the quiz;
• The pass grade is 70%;
• You need to pass the quiz to claim your CPD certificate;
• Please click on the CPD certificate link below to claim your CPD certificate and to update your CPD Manager.

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