Full Description
The post-covid landscape has unearthed a mental health epidemic in the United States that suggests many people are struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and fear. Perhaps now more than ever, wise, compassionate, grounded clinicians are needed to accompany children, adolescents, adults, groups, couples, and families through challenging life experiences. However, with the increase in care needed, mental health clinicians are at increased risk of experiencing compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
The Resilient Clinician, 2nd Edition, is an updated and much needed guide to preventing and limiting acute and chronic secondary stress in mental health professionals and encouraging and expanding experiences of resiliency, self-awareness, mindfulness, and growth. Informed by positive psychology and infused with compassion and wisdom, this book will encourage clinicians to find, nurture, and maintain the sense of deep perspective needed to be professionally useful and to personally grow.
Contents
Introduction: Continually Creating New Inner Psychological Space: An Ongoing Process of Mindfulness
Ch. 1: Sensing the Dangers: Chronic and Acute Secondary Stress
Ch. 2: Enhancing Resiliency: Strengthening One's Own Self-Care Protocol
Ch. 3: Replenishing the Self: Solitude, Silence, and Mindfulness
Ch. 4: Daily Debriefing: Mindfulness and Positive Psychology as an Integral Part of the Clinician's Ongoing Self-Reflective Process
Ch. 5: Resiliency in the Era of Tele Mental Health
Ch. 6: Resilience from a System Perspective
Ch. 7: Growing Weary or Wise: Posttraumatic Growth and Meaning Making Towards Wisdom
Epilogue: Clinician: An Honorable Profession, a Meaningful Life
Appendix A: Causes of Burnout
Appendix B: A Sampling of Key Signs and Symptoms of Burnout
Appendix C: Steps for Dealing With Daily Burnout
Appendix D: The Basics of Stress Management
Appendix E: Clinicians' Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire
Appendix F: Individual Question Reflection Guide
Works Cited
Selected Bibliography
Permissions
Index
