It seems that everywhere I go . . . to online discussion lists, in networking groups across town, at professional development workshops, and in working with my own supervisees . . . the topics of wellness, burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue are being talked about by mental health {...}
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Self Care
Mustard Seeds and Mega-Gifts: A Community Gratitude Journal – August 24, 2012
What are you grateful for?
If you are new to our online community here at Private Practice from the Inside Out, welcome! And, if you have been with us before, welcome back!
As a way of building our "gratitude muscles" and to help our colleagues build theirs, too, every Friday we will be {...}
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Counselor Self-Care: Tools for the Journey
I've shared with you before that I have a fabulous peer consultation group that meets monthly. At our last meeting one of the Licensed Professional Counselors of the group, Traci Hart of Hart Counseling, LLC, facilitated a discussion on the self-care of therapists. The information and resources {...}
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The Hazards Of Practicing Mental Health: What Our Colleagues In Mental Health Know . . . That Our Friends And Families Do Not
I was hanging out on Google+ last night when I ran across a link to Stretched, this fabulous post on WhatAShrinkThinks about the tolls of doing business as a mental health professional. The therapist / blogger references terms like "working in secrecy," "empathy-fatigue," and "talking binges."
What {...}
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