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| Series Editor's Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory | |
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| Caring for Others Versus Self-Care: The Great Human Drama | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Joys, Rewards, and Gifts of Practice | |
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| Joys of Practice | |
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| Rewards of Practice | |
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| Gifts of Practice | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| The Cycle of Caring as the Practice Essential | |
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| Caring as Central in Counseling, Therapy, Teaching, and Health Careers | |
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| The Cycle of Caring | |
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| The Cycle in Summary | |
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| Self-ReflectionExercises | |
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| The Long, Textured Path From Novice to Senior Practitioner | |
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| Themes in Professional Development | |
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| Phases of Practitioner Development | |
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| The Elevated Stressors of the Novice Practitioner | |
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| The Ambiguity of Human Interaction | |
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| Trekking With a Crude Map | |
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| Acute Need for Positive Mentoring | |
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| Glamorized Expectations | |
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| Intense Evaluation and Illuminated Scrutiny by Professional Gatekeepers | |
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| Porous Emotional Boundaries | |
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| Ethical and Legal Confusion | |
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| Acute Performance Anxiety and Fear | |
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| The Fragile and Incomplete Practitioner Self | |
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| Summary | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Hazards of Practice | |
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| The Difficult Nature of the Work With Clients, Students, and Patients | |
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| Managing Major Professional Stressors | |
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| Hazards Summary | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Burnout: A Hemorrhaging of the Self | |
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| Compassion Fatigue | |
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| Lack of Clarity | |
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| Work of Maslach | |
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| Seven Sources of Burnout | |
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| Meaning and Caring Burnout | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Balancing Caring for Others and Caring for Self | |
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| Losing One's Innocence About the Assertive Need for Self-Care | |
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| The Need for More Self-Care at Times of Personal Crisis or Excessive Stress | |
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| Codependency and Self-Care | |
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| Psychological Wellness as an Ethical Imperative | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Sustaining the Professional Self | |
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| Sustained by Meaningful Work | |
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| Maximizing the Experience of Professional Success | |
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| Avoid the Grandiosity Impulse and Relish Small I Made a Difference" Victories | |
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| Think Long Term | |
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| Creating and Sustaining an Active, Individually Designed Development Method | |
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| Professional Self-Understanding | |
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| Creating a Professional Greenhouse at Work | |
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| Using Professional Venting and Expressive Writing to Release Distress Emotions | |
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| The "Good Enough Practitioner" | |
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| Understanding the Reality of Pervasive Early Professional Anxiety | |
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| Increasing Intellectual Excitement and Decreasing Boredom by Reinventing Oneself | |
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| Minimizing Ambiguous Professional Loss | |
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| Learning to Set Boundaries, Create Limits, and Say No to Unreasonable Helping Requests | |
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| Summary | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Sustaining the Personal Self | |
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| Constant Investment in a Personal Renewal Process | |
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| Awareness of the Danger of One-Way Caring Relationships in One�s Personal Life | |
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| Nurturing One's Self | |
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| Summary: Keeping in Focus One's Own Need for Balanced Wellness�Physical, Spiritual, Emotional, and Social | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies of Expert Practitioners | |
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| Professional Stressors | |
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| Emergence of the Expert Practitioner | |
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| Creating a Positive Work Structure | |
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| Protective Factors | |
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| Nurturing Self Through Solitude and Relationships | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| magery Exercise | |
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| Self-Reflection Exercises | |
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| Self-Care Action Plan | |
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| Assess Your Own Other-Care vs. Self-Care Balance | |
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| Action Plan for Change | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |