^{26th Global Nursing and Health Care Conference}

Biography

Michelle Black is a Consultant, Educator and EAP Practitioner.   An advocate for leveraging the evidence to solve industry problems, Michelle developed Australia’s first evidence based program to combat compassion fatigue among care professionals and has more than 20 years’ experience leading organisational development in the commercial, government and not for profit sectors.

Michelle is a registerd Counsellor and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Training and Development.  Michelle has a Master of Counselling, and a Graduate Certificate in Corporate Management. As an advocate for people thriving in the workplace, Michelle has presented research on Compassion Fatigue at a number of national and international conferences and published peer reviewed articles in the Counselling Australia Journal and the Australian New Zealand 17^th International Mental Health Conference papers.

As a PhD student at the University of Queensland, Michelle continues to advance the research on interventions for Compassion Fatigue.

Abstract

Abstract : Combatting Compassion Fatigue: The Care Professional’s Resilience Program.