Clinician Burnout and Self-Care – FPN

Friday’s Progress Notes – May 2014

Mental Health Information – VOL: 8 ISSUE 4
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1. ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY IN MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Burnout in Mental Health Services: A Review of the Problem and Its Remediation
Many researchers consider burnout to be a job-related stress condition or even a work-related mental health impairment.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156844/

2. COUNSELING TODAY
The Inner Life of the Counselor
Strengthening our own self-care protocol is an important undertaking for ourselves and also a gift to our clients and colleagues.
https://ct.counseling.org/2014/04/the-inner-life-of-the-counselor/

3. COUNSELING TODAY
Leveraging apps for Counselor Self-care
This article provides apps for counselor self-care across three dimensions of wellness: physical, psychological and emotional.
https://ct.counseling.org/2013/10/leveraging-apps-for-counselor-self-care/

4. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Occupational Vulnerability for Psychologists
Everyone working in a mental health setting needs to attend to issues of occupational vulnerability and self-care.
https://www.apapracticecentral.org/ce/self-care/vulnerability.aspx

5. UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work
In this podcast, Elaine Hammond uses a trauma-informed perspective to provide a paradigm for the creation of an individualized self-care strategy.
https://www.insocialwork.org/episode.asp?ep=133

6. UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Self-Care Self-Assessment Checklists and Measures
This page has several self-assessment checklists and measures that can help therapists examine different aspects of their present well-being.
https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/resources/self-care-starter-kit/self-care-assessments-exercises/checklists-and-measures.html

7. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS
Causes, Consequences, and Prevention of Burnout among Substance Abuse Treatment Counselors: A Rural versus Urban Comparison
Substance abuse counselors are vulnerable to burnout, which has negative repercussions for the counselor, employing organization, and clients.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652635/

8. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY
How to avoid burning out and keep your spark
Treating or preventing burnout requires individual solutions, peer strategies, and group/organizational techniques. (Complimentary registration required.)
https://www.currentpsychiatry.com/fileadmin/cp_archive/pdf/0501/0501CP_Article2.pdf

9. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Promoting Wellness of Peer Providers Through Coaching
A key task of the wellness coach is to help the individual served
explore the eight dimensions of wellness.
https://www.healio.com/psychiatry/journals/jpn/2014-1-52-1/%7B28df0151-6b83-4cfd-935c-99bed1f87607%7D/promoting-wellness-of-peer-providers-through-coaching