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Highlights
- How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health.
- About the Author: RACHEL K. THOMAS is a practicing doctor, award-winning author and leading healthcare innovator with a special interest in mental wellbeing, resilience and progressive medicine.
- 144 Pages
- Medical, Mental Health
- Series Name: How to
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About the Book
"Our mental health and wellbeing are influenced by many factors, which also affect the overall state of mental health across the globe. The following overview provides a lens through which we can reflect on key aspects. Problem factor: Global mental health burden: The global burden of mental health conditions is greater than both cancer and cardiovascular disease. Approximately a third of adult health problems and disability across the globe is due to mental illness challenges. Such an enormous global burden has meant that finding solutions to the problem has become a key priority in many countries. The emphasis is now increasingly on potential preventative measures, and early, lighter touch interventions, than ever before. The average time to treatment after mental health symptoms first appear has been estimated as 10 years, and that 2 out of every 3 people who are depressed will not receive care that is adequate. This global crisis has prompted many conversations, as well action plans from institutions such as the World Health Organisation (WHO)"--Book Synopsis
How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing stress, coping with pressure in healthcare settings, recognising signs of impaired decision-making, and much more.
Written specifically for busy healthcare practitioners, the book offers focused and succinct chapters on topics ranging from behaviours to improve resilience and mindfulness, to approaches for maintaining work-life balance when confronted with excessive workloads and organisational pressures. Throughout the text, evidence-based tools and techniques are provided to improve the practitioner's health and facilitate the delivery of high-quality care. Covering a wide range of clinical situations and important issues, this book:
- Examines global, organisational, and individual problem factors affecting mental health and wellbeing
- Discusses the impacts of chronic stress, burnout, technological and environmental factors, work-associated trauma, and sources of wellbeing strain
- Identifies factors that negatively affect patients' wellbeing in hospital, clinic, and outpatient settings
- Offers guidance for emergencies and available resources for those in personal crisis
- Includes a mental health and wellbeing toolkit, including assessments and strategies
How to Promote Wellbeing is indispensable reading for doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, counsellors, and other clinicians and health professionals.
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PRACTICAL STEPS FOR HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS' MENTAL HEALTH
How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing stress, coping with pressure in healthcare settings, recognising signs of impaired decision-making, and much more.
Written specifically for busy healthcare practitioners, the book offers focused and succinct chapters on topics ranging from behaviours to improve resilience and mindfulness, to approaches for maintaining work-life balance when confronted with excessive workloads and organisational pressures. Throughout the text, evidence-based tools and techniques are provided to improve the practitioner's health and facilitate the delivery of high-quality care. Covering a wide range of clinical situations and important issues, this book:
- Examines global, organisational, and individual problem factors affecting mental health and wellbeing
- Discusses the impacts of chronic stress, burnout, technological and environmental factors, work-associated trauma, and sources of wellbeing strain
- Identifies factors that negatively affect patients' wellbeing in hospital, clinic, and outpatient settings
- Offers guidance for emergencies and available resources for those in personal crisis
- Includes a mental health and wellbeing toolkit, including assessments and strategies
How to Promote Wellbeing is indispensable reading for doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, counsellors, and other clinicians and health professionals.
Review Quotes
"In 'How to Promote Wellbeing', Dr Rachel Thomas has produced a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own wellbeing and mental health. From her own clinical medical background of neuroscience and the psychology of mental health, she provides practical strategies and guidance: by providing care to another human being, she explores how this can affect the carer ... This mental health first aid tool should be in your department's library and in the hands of those with an educational or leader's role, caring for staff welfare and your wellbeing." - Journal of Perioperative Practice
About the Author
RACHEL K. THOMAS is a practicing doctor, award-winning author and leading healthcare innovator with a special interest in mental wellbeing, resilience and progressive medicine.