| Description |
xiii, 202 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index. |
| Contents |
Designing and Creating the Life You Want -- Visualize the Life You Want and DO IT! -- Ask Yourself: "If Money Were No Object ..." -- Hire Yourself as Your Life Manager -- Tips for Managing Your Outer Environment -- Do the Things You Enjoy and Eliminate Those That Drain You -- Create an Environment You Love in Which You Can Express Yourself -- Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow -- Get a Life -- Make Your Calendar Your Most Important Tool -- Diversify, Diversify, Diversify -- Simplify, Simplify, Simplify -- Eliminate Managed Care -- Learn To Set Limits -- Tips for Managing Your Inner Environment -- Clinician, Know Thyself -- Take Time To Sharpen the Saw -- Learn To Recognize and Avoid Burnout -- Listen to Your Body's Signals -- Get Some Personal Therapy -- Talk to Your Colleagues -- Get Out of the Overresponsibility Trap -- Keep a Healthy Distance -- Learn To Deal with Uncertainty -- Remember Your Calling. |
| Summary |
"The Therapist's Guide to Self Care is the essential text for every therapist who wants to have a healthy, satisfying, and fulfilling career. A guide to help therapists create the job and the life they want, it provides practical tips and step-by-step strategies to help therapists care for themselves. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including research findings and her own experience counseling therapists, this text examines the stresses of the psychotherapy profession, asking readers to take stock of these in their lives, provides tips on managing the external environment, setting up home and work life that promotes general well being; and offers tools for management of the internal environment of thoughts and feelings. It addresses a broad range of issues of psychotherapist self-care, covering a remarkable number of practice issues and concerns that therapists frequently experience, but that are rarely discussed in training or practice. Written in an informal, easy-to-read, and entertaining style, and packed with useful information, it presents specific suggestions for pragmatic, practical, and self-care aspects of practice."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Psychiatrists -- Job stress -- Prevention.
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Psychiatrists -- Mental health.
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Psychotherapy. (DNLM)D011613
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Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control.
(DNLM)D013315Q000517
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Self Care -- psychology.
(DNLM)D012648Q000523
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Mental Health. (DNLM)D008603
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Work -- psychology.
(DNLM)D014937Q000523
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Psychiatrists -- Mental health.
(OCoLC)fst01081148
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| ISBN |
0415948002 (hbk.) |
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9780415948005 (hbk.) |
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