Developing healthy mental health professionals: what can we learn from trainees?

Autor: Avi Shmueli, Anne Paton, Gillian Miles, Judith Trowell, Zahid Davids
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Infant Observation. 11:333-343
ISSN: 1745-8943
1369-8036
Popis: There is considerable interest in the recruitment, training and retention of workers in the field of mental health, as evidence shows significant problems in the retention of highly qualified professionals in this field. Large numbers leave, some leaving the professions for other careers as a result of burnout, caused in part by the emotional burden of work in stressful and emotionally charged environments. We propose a training approach in which students are encouraged to reflect on their own emotional responses to such stressful and upsetting situations. We argue that this approach, in allowing them to be more at ease with themselves, would make them both more available to the emotional experiences of their patients, and in turn enhance their own resilience and capacity to survive stressful situations. We took for our study a cohort of trainees from The Tavistock Clinic in London, a major training institution providing post-graduate mental health courses based in psychoanalytic and systemic the...
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