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Book SynopsisThe post-covid landscape has unearthed a mental health epidemic in the United States that suggests many people are struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and fear. Perhaps now more than ever, wise, compassionate, grounded clinicians are needed to accompany children, adolescents, adults, groups, couples, and families through challenging life experiences. However, with the increase in care needed, mental health clinicians are at increased risk of experiencing compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. The Resilient Clinician, 2nd Edition, is an updated and much needed guide to preventing and limiting acute and chronic secondary stress in mental health professionals and encouraging and expanding experiences of resiliency, self-awareness, mindfulness, and growth. Informed by positive psychology and infused with compassion and wisdom, this book will encourage clinicians to find, nurture, and maintain the sense of deep perspective needed to be profes
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Continually Creating New Inner Psychological Space: An Ongoing Process of Mindfulness Ch. 1: Sensing the Dangers: Chronic and Acute Secondary Stress Ch. 2: Enhancing Resiliency: Strengthening One's Own Self-Care Protocol Ch. 3: Replenishing the Self: Solitude, Silence, and Mindfulness Ch. 4: Daily Debriefing: Mindfulness and Positive Psychology as an Integral Part of the Clinician's Ongoing Self-Reflective Process Ch. 5: Resiliency in the Era of Tele Mental Health Ch. 6: Resilience from a System Perspective Ch. 7: Growing Weary or Wise: Posttraumatic Growth and Meaning Making Towards Wisdom Epilogue: Clinician: An Honorable Profession, a Meaningful Life Appendix A: Causes of Burnout Appendix B: A Sampling of Key Signs and Symptoms of Burnout Appendix C: Steps for Dealing With Daily Burnout Appendix D: The Basics of Stress Management Appendix E: Clinicians' Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire Appendix F: Individual Question Reflection Guide Works Cited Selected Bibliography Permissions Index
