"A Can of Worms Pt 2"

Featuring: Irini Kouvalakis, she's back and ready for a yap 

Let's deep dive! 

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Join us as we unravel the intricate issues behind speech pathology professional burnout. Our deep dive reveals alarming statistics: the number of teachers leaving the profession has tripled in the last eight years, while 31% of speech pathologists (or 4,650 of 15,000 members) are contemplating an exit, and another 13% are seeking promotions.

**Key Discussion Points:**

- **Salary Considerations:**
  - Average salaries compared:
    - Speech Pathologists: $90-100k
    - Teachers: $100-105k
    - Psychologists: $95-110k

- **Defining a Manageable Caseload:**
  - **Irini's Perspective:**
    - Daily quota: 2-3 clients based on goals and presentations.
    - Preference for bulk client-facing days versus admin time.
  - **Priscilla's Perspective:**
    - Travel time and fatigue considerations.
    - A caseload of 3 clients per day feels optimal.
    - At least 1 hour of admin time per client.

- **Study Findings on Burnout:**
  - Emotional exhaustion.
  - Lack of social support and supervision.
  - Low feelings of accomplishment.
  - Overarching depersonalization, feeling like a cog in a big machine.

**Supervision Insights:**
- **Irini:**
  - Focus on non-clinical supervision for emotional support, counselling, and validation.
- **Priscilla:**
  - Specialized supervision for specific concerns, with weekly touch-bases.
  - Highlighting an OT who created a non-clinical supervision business- called 'Passionoccupationaltherapy'

**Evidence-Based Practice (EBP):**
- Clinical perspective integrating external, science-based research with internal, individualized client values, beliefs, and goals.
  - Considerations of race, culture, societal experience, expectations, priorities, and values.

Tune in to explore these compelling insights and discover strategies to mitigate burnout and foster a supportive professional environment.

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