cover image - Root Strength Elsevier eBook on VitalSource ( Retail Access Card), 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323778725
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 01-04-2022
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $31.99

Root Strength Elsevier eBook on VitalSource ( Retail Access Card), 1st Edition

by Shannon Dames, RN, MPH, EdD

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cover image - Root Strength Elsevier eBook on VitalSource ( Retail Access Card), 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323778725
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 01-04-2022
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $31.99
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Help your students build resilience and thrive in care professions! Root Strength: A Health and Care Professionals’ Guide to Minimizing Stress and Maximizing Thriving discusses principles of self-care that can help 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. Especially timely today, this practical manual shows how students can apply these insights on the job and enhance their 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 student 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 students to think about how they would handle the situation while reading 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 creates a rapport with the reader and facilitates conceptual learning.
    • Integrated practical exercises allow students to build and strengthen their own metaphorical roots.
    • Vignettes are threaded throughout the text, demonstrating how concepts apply to real-world scenarios.
    • Attuning for the Journey Ahead sums up the content at the end of each chapter, ensuring that students understand the main concepts.
    • UNIQUE! Special boxes contributed by Dr. Crosbie Watler, MD, FRCPC help students understand and navigate through care professionals’ mental health challenges.
  • About the Author
    Preface
    Part 1: Coming to Know through the Research
    Introduction
    1. Root Strength: Sense of Coherence and Congruence
    2. Coming to Know How to Thrive
    3. Coming to Know about Stress
    Part 2: Coming to Know through the Felt Sense
    4. Attuning to Your “Roots”
    5. Strengthening Congruence With Self-Compassion
    6. Attuning to “Signal”: Clearing the “Noise” and Managing the Weather
    7. Strengthening Sense of Coherence: Mindful Reorientation
    8. Strengthening Our Roots as We Till the Soil of our Childhoods
    9. Strengthening Our Self-Soothing Capacities: Calm at the Roots
    10. Clearing Past Trauma: The Unresolved Weather of the Past
    Part 3: Aligning with Calling in Community
    11. Aligning With Calling: Roots Over Fruits
    12. Aligning in Community: Connecting Root Systems
    Appendix A: Resourcing With Deep Roots
    Appendix B: How Practices Promote Sense of Coherence and Congruence Development
    Appendix C: Objectives Within the Journey
    Glossary
    References
  • Shannon Dames, RN, MPH, EdD, Professor, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Hath Professional Investigator for the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research/Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, Director of Research and Development for Roots to Thrive, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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