The Therapist's Workbook : Self-Assessment, Self-Care, and Self-Improvement Exercises for Mental Health Professionals

Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well-being? Filled with self-assessments, journaling exercises, and activities designed to facilitate renewal, growth, and change, this timely book helps clinicians help themselves with coverage of career threatening issues, such as fear of failure, loss of confidence, and the financial stress and loss of autonomy that many clinician's experience as a result of managed care and its constraints. Stresses writing exercises as way for therapist to confront issues, deal w/burn-out & failure, maintain a support system Annotation Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well-being? Filled with self-assessments, journaling exercises, and activities designed to facilitate renewal, growth, and change, this timely book helps clinicians help themselves with coverage of career threatening issues, such as fear of failure, loss of confidence, and the financial stress and loss of autonomy that many clinician's experience as a result of managed care and its constraints pt. 1. Confronting the issues pt. 2. Taking care of yourself pt. 3. Practicing what you preach.