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Summary:

"This informative and inspirational volume creates a map for new mental health practitioners - one that provides a positive trinity of validity, clarity, and hope for novices, their teachers, and their supervisors"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Part One
• 1. Caring for Others Versus Self-Care: The Great Human Drama
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 2. Joys, Rewards, and Gifts of Practice
• Joys of Practice
• Rewards of Practice
• Gifts of Practice
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 3. Cycle of Caring as the Practice Essential
• Caring as Central in Counseling, Therapy, Teaching, and Health Careers
• Cycle of Caring
• Cycle in Summary
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 4. Long, Textured Path From Novice to Senior Practitioner / Michael H. Rønnestad
• Themes in Professional Development
• Phases of Practitioner Development
• 5. Elevated Stressors of the Novice Practitioner
• Ambiguity of Human Interaction
• Trekking With a Crude Map
• Acute Need for Positive Mentoring

• Glamorized Expectations
• Intense Evaluation and Illuminated Scrutiny by Professional Gatekeepers
• Porous Emotional Boundaries
• Ethical and Legal Confusion
• Acute Performance Anxiety and Fear
• Fragile and Incomplete Practitioner Self
• Summary
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 6. Hazards of Practice
• Difficult Nature of the Work With Clients, Students, and Patients
• Managing Major Professional Stressors
• Hazards Summary
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 7. Burnout: A Hemorrhaging of the Self
• Compassion Fatigue
• Lack of Clarity
• Work of Maslach
• Seven Sources of Burnout
• Meaning and Caring Burnout
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• Part Two
• 8. Balancing Caring for Others and Caring for Self
• Losing One's Innocence About the Assertive Need for Self-Care
• Need for More Self-Care at Times of Personal Crisis or Excessive Stress
• Codependency and Self-Care
• Psychological Wellness as an Ethical Imperative
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 9. Sustaining the Professional Self
• Sustained by Meaningful Work
• Maximizing the Experience of Professional Success
• Avoid the Grandiosity Impulse and Relish Small "I Made a Difference" Victories
• Think Long Term
• Creating and Sustaining an Active, Individually Designed Development Method
• Professional Self-Understanding
• Creating a Professional Greenhouse at Work
• Using Professional Venting and Expressive Writing to Release Distress Emotions
• "Good Enough Practitioner"
• Understanding the Reality of Pervasive Early Professional Anxiety
• Increasing Intellectual Excitement and Decreasing Boredom by Reinventing Oneself
• Minimizing Ambiguous Professional Loss
• Learning to Set Boundaries, Create Limits, and Say No to Unreasonable Helping Requests
• Summary
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 10. Sustaining the Personal Self
• Constant Investment in a Personal Renewal Process
• Awareness of the Danger of One-Way Caring Relationships in One's Personal Life
• Nurturing One's Self
• Summary: Keeping in Focus One's Own Need for Balanced Wellness
• -Physical, Spiritual, Emotional, and Social
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 11. Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies of Expert Practitioners / Thomas M. Skovholt
• Category A Professional Stressors
• Category B Emergence of the Expert Practitioner
• Category C Creating a Positive Work Structure
• Category D Protective Factors
• Category E Nurturing Self Through Solitude and Relationships
• Conclusion
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 12. Epilogue
• Imagery Exercise
• Self-Reflection Exercises
• 13. Self-Care Action Plan
• pt. 1 Assess Your Own Other-Care vs. Self-Care Balance
• pt. 2 Action Plan for Change.

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Author/Creator:

Skovholt, Thomas M.

Contributors:

Trotter-Mathison, Michelle

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The resilient practitioner: burnout prevention and self-care strategies for counselors, therapists, teachers, and health professionals [by Skovholt, T.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: resilient practitioner [by Skovholt, T.M.] (2nd ed.; New York : Routledge, 2011 — ISBN 9780415989381; LCCN 2010026034)

Related Series:

Counseling and psychotherapy

Subjects:

Medical personnel — Mental health

Psychotherapists — Mental health

Teachers — Mental health

Counselors — Mental health

Medical personnel — Job stress

Psychotherapists — Job stress

Teachers — Job stress

Counselors — Job stress

Burn out (Psychology) — Prevention

Medical personnel

Psychotherapists

Teachers

Counselors

Mental health

Burn out (Psychology)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RC451.4.M44 S57 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780203893326 (electronic bk.)
0203893328 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

707067636

Other Control Numbers:

EBC646574 (source: MiAaPQ)