The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Second Edition ... Historical, and Cultural Perspectives)

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. Abstract: 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 Therapists and other helping professionals, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, social workers, and clergy, work in highly demanding fields and can suffer from burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary stress. This happens when they give more attention to their clients'well being than their own. Both students and practitioners in these fields will find this book an essential guide to striking an optimal balance between self-care and other-care. The authors describe the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and a self-care action plan. Vivid real-life examples and self-reflection questions will engage and motivate readers to think about their own work and ways to enhance their own resilience. Eloquently written and supported by extensive research, helping professionals will find this a valuable resource both when a novice and when an experienced practitioner. "Counseling older adults is not equivalent to counseling the general population, and specialized skills and knowledge, as well as sensitivity to the contexts in which older adults live, are essential in working successfully with this population. This book provides an introduction to gerontological counseling, covering theories of aging (including a theory of gerontological counseling) and their practical application in counseling work with older adults; basic counseling skills and the counseling process in the context of work with older adults; contextual factors (race-ethnicity, social class, etc.); and a discussion of social justice issues. Also considered are biopsychosocial-spiritual contexts of older adults, as well as the counseling skills and process interventions that maximize counseling success within these contexts"--Provided by publisher "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. 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. Behavioral Sciences Creating a map for new mental health practitioners, this title is also suitable for their teachers, and their supervisors.