How to Promote Wellbeing: Practical Steps for Healthcare Practitioners' Mental Health

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Rachel K. Thomas (South Thames Foundation programme, Croydon Hospital, London)

How to Promote Wellbeing

Practical Steps for Healthcare Practitioners' Mental Health

Rachel K. Thomas (South Thames Foundation programme, Croydon Hospital, London)

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Wiley-Blackwell
25 February 2021

Clinical & internal medicine; Nursing & ancillary services

Series: How To

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.

By: Rachel K. Thomas (South Thames Foundation programme Croydon Hospital London)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 193g
ISBN: 9781119614364
ISBN 10: 1119614368
Series: How To
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 25 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for How to Promote Wellbeing: Practical Steps for Healthcare Practitioners' Mental Health

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