Interactive Staff Training: Rehabilitation Teams That Work (springer Series In Rehabilitation And Health)

Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; burnout is common. Alleviating such stress is the objective of __Interactive Staff____Training__. The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and their colleagues work as a well-integrated team. This strategy has been implemented in teams serving more than 10,000 persons with psychiatric disabilities. The text combines a careful description of the central theory behind the strategy with pleanty of clinical anecdotes that illustrate its practical, everyday benefits. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Problem with Staff Training....Pages 3-20 An Organizational Approach to Staff Training....Pages 21-33 Overview of Interactive Staff Training....Pages 35-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Engaging and Organizing the Rehabilitation Team....Pages 49-92 Developing the Program Interactively....Pages 93-128 Implementing and Maintaining the Program....Pages 129-164 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 The Difficulty in Measuring Staff Training Effects....Pages 167-181 Research on Interactive Staff Training....Pages 183-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Spreading the Influence of Interactive Staff Training....Pages 213-234 Epilogue....Pages 235-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-273 "Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; burnout is common. Alleviating such stress is the objective of Interactive Staff Training. The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and their colleagues work as a well-integrated team. This strategy has been implemented in teams serving more than 10,000 persons with psychiatric disabilities. The text combines a careful description of the central theory behind the strategy with pleanty of clinical anecdotes that illustrate its practical, everyday benefits"--Font no determinada