Author : Leigh A. Carter
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 0199335354
"Self-care for Clinicians in Training assists readers in recognizing challenges and stressors and instructs them in maintaining a career-long lifestyle of self-care"--
Author : Jessica L. Hessler
Publisher :
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Graduate students
ISBN :
Applicable literature suggests that both mental health professionals (Guy, Poelstra, & Stark, 1989) and graduate psychology students (Carter & Barnett, 2014) experience distinct stressors, demands, and challenges that may impact wellness and professional competence. This highlights the importance of maintaining adequate self-care behaviors during graduate psychology training and throughout the career (Bamonti et al., 2014). Although graduate psychology programs are in a strategic position to support students in establishing healthy self-care behaviors early in their career; research indicates that graduate psychology programs may not sufficiently attend to this area (Bamonti et al., 2014) The current graduate psychology culture often does not foster an atmosphere of healthy self-care behaviors among graduate students (Munsey, 2006). Typically, self-care is viewed as the individual's responsibility (Pakenham & Stafford-Brown, 2012) and discussions about self-care and wellness are exclusively reactions to concerns of professional or academic competence (Elman & Forrest, 2004). Nevertheless, it is imperative to acknowledge the ethical relevance of maintaining adequate self-care within psychological training and work (Barnett, Baker, Elman, & Schoener, 2007). As graduate psychology students represent the future of the mental health profession, it is essential that academic programs and related trainings prepare them for ethical practices by adequately addressing self-care (Bamonti et al., 2014). In order to help shift the culture of self-care in graduate psychology programs recommendations are provided for individuals on various levels including students, faculty, supervisors, departments, and formal organizations which oversee graduate psychology activity. Comparable educational programs that have taken steps toward incorporating self-care and wellness practices into their curriculum will be explored to provide a model for potential applications in psychology graduate programs.
Author : Burlinda Seals
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :
Both graduate school and the professional role of a school psychologist are demanding and extremely stressful. The rate of burnout for school psychologists at some point in their professional careers is nearly 90% (Randolph & Boan-Lonzo, 2017), while 70% of professional psychology graduate students report stress that is severe enough to interfere with their functioning (El-Ghoroury, Galper, Sawaqdeh, & Bufka, 2012). The best way to inoculate oneself against the effects of these stressors is to develop a strong self-care habit; 80% of those graduate students in professional psychology programs that reported habitually engaging in behaviors of self-care were more successful than those that did not (Colman et al., 2016). However, roughly 30% of graduate programs in psychology even mention self-care in their graduate handbooks, and the handbooks that did mention self-care did so only in the context of distressed students seeking support from a counselor (Zahniser, Rupert, and Dorociak, 2017). This project is a handbook designed to aid graduate students in building their self-care practice into one that will benefit them throughout their professional lives. Specifically, this project examines the physical areas of self-care: diet, exercise, and sleep. The National Association of School Psychologists identified physical self-care as one of three main areas of an effective self-care routine. The project was developed in consultation with a fellow graduate student, who is designing a conjoint project that focuses on the other two areas of self-care named by NASP, social care and emotional health. The project includes information and worksheets to guide students in building their self-care practices as well as useful resources.
Author : Daniel Andre Fuselier
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Graduate students
ISBN :
Author : Gerald Corey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1119457416
Self-care is critical for effective and ethical counseling practice and this inspirational book offers diverse, realistic perspectives on how to achieve work–life balance and personal wellness from graduate school through retirement. In addition to the authors’ unique perspectives as professionals at different stages of their careers, guest contributors—ranging from graduate students, to new professionals, to seasoned counselors—share their experiences and thoughts about self-care, including what challenges them most. Both personal and conversational in tone, this book will help you to create your own practical self-care action plan through reflection on important issues, such as managing stress, establishing personal and professional boundaries, enhancing relationships, and finding meaning in life. "Counselors face the obstacle of remembering to care for themselves while focusing on caring for others. In Counselor Self-Care, Drs. Gerald Corey, Michelle Muratori, Jude Austin, and Julius Austin lead 52 contributing authors in a book rich with living events and defining moments. Multiple stressors are described and met with multiple solutions. There is so much great content here that can be embraced by those who do the noble work of being present for others." —Tom Skovholt, PhD, LP, Professor, University of Minnesota; Author of The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions, 3rd Edition "Self-care is often discussed in counselor training and supervision, but not in its full scope. Counselor Self-Care provides breadth and depth by addressing the many facets of self-care. The authors combine personal narratives and anecdotes from experienced mental health professionals with self-assessment questions and self-care improvement strategies. The level of vulnerability and insight from the authors, and those who share their stories, is informative and rare to find. Assign this book as reading for yourself, your students, and your supervisees to motivate nurturing of the self." —Philip Clarke, PhD, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com *To request print copies, please visit the ACA https://imis.counseling.org/store/detail *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]
Author : Kristen L'Heureux
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :
School psychologists, like many others in clinical or service providing professions, experience significant stressors in their day to day professional functioning. The literature demonstrates correlations between chronic occupational stressors and burnout and indicates consistent self-care practices can help mitigate symptoms of burnout (De Vibe, Solhaug, Rosenvinge, Tyssen, Hanley & Garland, 2018). Literature is lacking, however, in regard to graduate student stress for students enrolled in school psychology programs. Research conducted on psychology and medical graduate students indicate high degrees of stress and low levels of successful coping strategies; it is likely that similar trends would be found among school psychology graduate students given the similarities in program and training demands (Colman, Echon, Lemay, McDonald, Smith, Spencer & Swift, 2016; Goncher, Sherman, Barnett & Haskins, 2012; Shannon, Simmelink-McCleary, Becher & Crook-Lyon, 2014). The National Association of School Psychologists' ethical standards do not directly address self-care, though the ethical demand for such practices can be derived from the standard directing school psychologists to "take steps to protect all students from reasonably foreseeable risk of harm" (NASP, p.2). Emphasis of self-care during graduate training can provide the basis for a successful self-care system as students enter the profession of school psychology. This paper specifically addresses the emotional, cognitive and social aspects of self-care as they pertain to graduate students enrolled in school psychology programs. The information discussed in this paper supplies part of a handbook created for use by school psychology graduate students to assist in informing the creation of a personal self-care system. Information regarding the physical aspects of self-care, such as care of the body through exercise, sleep and nutrition, is supplied through the work completed by Burlinda Seals, a fellow CSUN graduate student enrolled in the school psychology program. The handbook is a cumulation of our collective review of the literature in the areas of burnout, stressors within graduate school as well as the profession of school psychology, and effective self-care practices.
Author : Ian D. Goncher
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Graduate students
ISBN :
The current study addressed the relation between programmatic self-care emphasis, selfcare utilization, and quality-of-life among 264 doctoral level clinical psychology graduate students. Specifically, this study proposed that there would be a relation between programmatic self-care emphasis and graduate trainee quality-of-life and this would be mediated by graduate trainee self-care utilization. The test for mediation as outlined by Baron and Kenny (1986) was supported by the survey data as programmatic self-care emphasis was a positive predictor of quality-of-life and was partially mediated by selfcare utilization. These results demonstrated a significant direct and indirect effect of programmatic emphasis of self-care on graduate trainee quality-of-life and graduate trainee use of self-care strategies. As a result, suggestions for individual and systemic changes to promote a culture of self-care within graduate training in clinical psychology are discussed.
Author : Oona C. Shotwell
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology students
ISBN :
Author : Leigh A. Carter
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Graduate students
ISBN :
This project culminated in a handbook on self-care and psychological wellness for graduate students in the mental health professions. All mental health professionals will experience distress, whether in their personal lives, professional lives, or both, at some point throughout their career. Presently, a wealth of research and literature exists on self-care for practicing professionals in the mental health fields, educating and informing these seasoned professionals on preventative and reparative strategies of self-care, problems with professional competence, and overall psychological wellness. However, this literature does not easily translate to the graduate student experience. As no current resource exists for graduate students in mental health professions that both specifically addresses the unique challenges and sources of distress of the graduate school experience while also providing self-care strategies and practical tools tailored to this phase of the professional career, this handbook was created to specifically fill this void in the literature. This handbook provides education on distress, on the development of problems with professional competence, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, self-care practices, and on the promotion of well functioning specifically for graduate students in mental health professions. It is intended for graduate students in all fields of the mental health professions and at any stage of the graduate school experience. Furthermore, it is designed and intended to serve as an ongoing resource for readers in the area of self-care and psychological wellness throughout their professional careers, providing readers with experiential activities, practical strategies, and resources for present and future assistance.
Author : Lillie Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1135935785
Psychotherapy is an increasingly stressful profession. Yet therapists spend most of their time helping clients deal with their stress, not caring for their own. This book is designed as a tool for the experienced counselor, junior therapist, and graduate student, as the issues confronted and discussed herein are relevant to anyone in the field, regardless of experience or expertise. Dr. Weiss has written a book in an easy, conversational tone, filled with concrete examples and blending research findings, clinical experience and theoretical approaches into practical suggestions and sound advice. The book is divided into three parts, discussing therapist concerns and questions that are continually raised, and providing practical tools based on clinical experience and research findings. It will be useful to all mental health professionals who have felt the strain of their practice.
