Five Ways to Wreck Your Career: The Ethics of Success, Struggle, and Self-Care for Helping Professionals

In this course, addiction professional and NAADAC Executive Director Terrence D. Walton, MSW, introduces the ethical and professional realities of burnout, self-care, impairment, and career sustainability in helping professions. Drawing from decades of leadership and frontline experience, he explores how you can maintain integrity, emotional resilience, and professional effectiveness while navigating chronic stress, overwhelming workloads, and personal challenges. The course offers practical strategies for recognising warning signs, setting healthy boundaries, protecting ethical practice, and sustaining long-term professional wellbeing.