Root Strength E-Book: Root Strength E-Book

by MPH Dames RN

Overview

Develop resilience and thrive as a care professional! Root Strength: A Health and Care Professionals' Guide to Minimizing Stress and Maximizing Thriving discusses principles of self-care that can help you prevent emotional fatigue and job burnout in highly stressful workplaces. An evidence-based approach examines how the care professional can develop self-compassion, mindfulness, relationships with co-workers, and perceived satisfaction with one's career. Written by noted educator and researcher Shannon Dames, this practical manual shows how you can apply these insights on the job and enhance your personal well-being in real-world health care settings. With the prevalence of mental health issues among care professionals — including rates of PTSD and major depressive disorder (MDD) — appearing much higher than that in the general population, never has a resource like this been more required! - Focus on both theory and practice allows for self-assessment and the ability to build resilience and thrive, with concepts underpinned by research. - UNIQUE! Journeys case studies highlight a care professional's real-world experience/concerns, encouraging you to think about how you would handle the situation as you read through the chapter; the chapter closes with an effective method to handle the real-life situation, demonstrating how to apply the lessons learned. - UNIQUE! Clear and conversational writing style and metaphorical roots/tree framework makes it easier to understand concepts. - Practical exercises throughout the text allow you to build and strengthen your own metaphorical roots. - Vignettes demonstrate how concepts apply to real-world scenarios. - Attuning for the Journey Ahead sums up the content at the end of each chapter, ensuring that you understand the key concepts. - UNIQUE! Special boxes contributed by Dr. Crosbie Watler, MD, FRCPC help you understand and navigate through professionals' mental health challenges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323778701
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/09/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Dr. Shannon Dames holds a doctorate degree in Education, and has worked in various capacities related to nursing, program development, and research over the last 20 years. She is a professor and researcher with the Nursing program at Vancouver Island University, and a forensic nurse examiner with Island Health. The program of research that she is focusing on centres on articulating the most significant factors that will enable meaningful and sustainable culture change in health care. Her efforts centre on seeding culture change from a bottom up (personal resilience) and top-down approach (systemic resilience).Dr. Dames is an academic journal article author, Elsevier text author and contributor, and a keynote speaker. She continues to facilitate workshops that focus on the experiential development of the core factors that enable humans to thrive. She comes to this work motivated to provide the tools necessary for us to address the international mental health crises we are facing in health care and beyond. Dr. Dames has received multiple grant awards to support her ongoing program of research, which includes collaborative endeavours with the health authority, academic institutions, and the BC Centre on Substance Use.

Table of Contents

About the AuthorPrefacePart 1: Coming to Know through the ResearchIntroduction1. Root Strength: Sense of Coherence and Congruence2. Coming to Know How to Thrive3. Coming to Know about StressPart 2: Coming to Know through the Felt Sense4. Attuning to Your "Roots5. Strengthening Congruence With Self-Compassion6. Attuning to "Signal: Clearing the "Noise and Managing the Weather7. Strengthening Sense of Coherence: Mindful Reorientation8. Strengthening Our Roots as We Till the Soil of our Childhoods9. Strengthening Our Self-Soothing Capacities: Calm at the Roots10. Clearing Past Trauma: The Unresolved Weather of the PastPart 3: Aligning with Calling in Community11. Aligning With Calling: Roots Over Fruits12. Aligning in Community: Connecting Root SystemsAppendix A: Resourcing With Deep RootsAppendix B: How Practices Promote Sense of Coherence and Congruence DevelopmentAppendix C: Objectives Within the JourneyGlossaryReferences