Course Information:
Job Burnout in Funeral Service
While job burnout is nothing new or unique in funeral service, more funeral directors, mortuary workers and staff members are dealing with job burnout than ever before. Learn about how to identify symptoms, the causes of job burnout, how to resolve burnout symptoms and how to deal with the stress that often leads to burnout. Avoiding burnout and negative feelings about your chosen profession begins by understanding the causes and being able to recognize the symptoms that often lead to a full-blown case of "compassion fatigue," a condition unique to people choosing one of the helping professions as a career.
The Author
Alice Adams has been affiliated with the funeral service profession since 1989, serving as director of training and development for personnel involved, in every aspect of funeral home and cemetery operations. More recently, she is a contributing editor to The Texas Director, a monthly publication for the Texas Funeral Directors Association.
A graduate of the University of Texas, she holds degrees in education/mass communications and is a doctoral candidate at The University of Houston in the field of education leadership with a specialization in adult education.
She has developed educational materials for funeral directors for more than a decade and has authored more than two dozen continuing educational modules as well as textbooks used in mortuary schools across the country.
She has also co-written more than a dozen self-development books in the field of management and communications. An award-winning writer, she recently earned two first-place awards in the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association’s Annual Writing Competition.
