Clinician Well-being: Self-compassion in Action
Healthcare clinicians often find themselves in demanding and emotionally charged environments, where the well-being of both patients and practitioners is crucial. This course, "Clinician Well-being: Self-Compassion in Action," is designed to provide healthcare professionals with essential insights and practical tools to enhance their self-compassion, a vital component of overall well-being and the antidote to burnout, allowing for quality patient care. The course will define and differentiate between self-care and self-compassion, as well as provide an overview of the three key components of self-compassion in Dr. Kristin Neff's research. This course is the last of an 8-part series.
.75 hour CME. Recorded video format (non-interactive)
Course Overview
- Estimated Course Length: 50 minutes
- CME Credits: 0.75
- Course Includes: video featuring subject matter expert discussion
- Supplementary PDFs: 2 downloadable resources
- Target Audience: Healthcare clinicians, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians
- Level of Instruction: Introductory
- Prerequisite: N/A
- Instructional Method: Self-paced, non-interactive video
- Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com
Learning Objectives
By completing this course, you will be able to:
1. Describe the difference between self-compassion and self-care
2. Identify the three components of self-compassion
Course Outline
TIMED COURSE OUTLINE
Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos and voiceover. This course does not have to be completed in one session.
COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR CE CREDIT (≥ 50 MINUTES)
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Pre-Course Assessment (~5 minutes)
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Video: (~40 minutes)
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Post-Course Assessment (~5 minutes)
COURSE ACTIVITIES NOT FOR CE CREDIT
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Participant Evaluation (~5 minutes)
CE Information
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AffinityCE and Psych Hub. AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Physicians completing this course receive 0.75 continuing education credits.Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
AffinityCE is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE). The cost to participate is included in the registration. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. This knowledge-based CPE activity will provide 0.75 contact hours for participants.UANs for pharmacists and technicians: 0829-9999-24-134-H04-P 0829-9999-24-134-H04-T To claim these CMEs, log into https://psychhub.cds.affinityced.com/#mod24-8
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Nurse CE is provided for this program through collaboration between Psych Hub and AffinityCE. AffinityCE is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). Nurses completing this course receive 0.75 continuing education credits.Experts

Jeffrey Ring, PhD
Jeffrey Ring is a health psychologist, leadership coach and educator and advocate for health justice and equity. For 20 years he served at the Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial in East Los Angeles. He is the first author of the book, Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Health Care: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competency Training. In 2023 he was awarded the Susan McDaniel Distinguished Career Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Pari Thibodeau, PhD, LCSW, MSW
Pari Thibodeau is an integrated healthcare scholar with priorities rooted in both the clinical and research work. Pari studied at Elon University (BA in Human Service Studies), Washington University in St. Louis (MSW), and the University of Denver (PhD). She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Colorado. In her clinical experience, she worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient health and mental health settings serving individuals coping with chronic illness, end of life, trauma, depression, anxiety, and more. In her research, she studies the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, specifically focusing on the experiences of moral injury and mental health faced by healthcare workers. Her research extends across the interdisciplinary healthcare teams, with emphasis on healthcare social work experiences of workforce wellbeing. She approaches her research from a systems lens, considering the interaction of each healthcare worker within the context in which they work and live in. Pari is an educator and teaches clinical social work skills and social work in healthcare courses at the graduate level.