Cultivating professional resilience in direct practice : a guide for human service professionals / Jason M. Newell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to resilient practice through holistic self-care -- Understanding the connection between stress and trauma -- Chronic empathy and trauma in human service work: implications for social service professionals -- Understanding and preventing the effects of professional burnout and indirect trauma: an individual and organizational challenge -- Assessment and measurement of occupational stress and trauma -- The essential practice of professional self-care: the key to professional resilience -- Preserving professional resilience: the ongoing practice of holistic self-care -- The ethical imperative of professional self-care -- Trauma-informed education, training, and professional development -- The use of mindfulness practice as a function of self-care -- Epilogue: finding balance in social work practice: self-care as practice wisdom.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2017).

Overwhelming evidence indicates that new social workers going into child welfare or other trauma-related care discover emotional challenges. In a textbook that bridges the gap between theoretical and pragmatic approaches, Jason M. Newell provides a solution by conceptualizing self-care as the key to professional resilience.

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