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A guide to assist human service workers- such as those working as therapists, social workers and counsellors- in maintaining their self- care and professional effectiveness when stress and trauma play a key factor in their everyday working lives. Including accounts from clinical psychologists, therapists, counsellors and social workers, this book creates a narrative on stress and trauma from the human service worker perspective. With discussions on risk and resilience, compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatisation, readers are introduced to the theories and practical applications of…mehr

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A guide to assist human service workers- such as those working as therapists, social workers and counsellors- in maintaining their self- care and professional effectiveness when stress and trauma play a key factor in their everyday working lives. Including accounts from clinical psychologists, therapists, counsellors and social workers, this book creates a narrative on stress and trauma from the human service worker perspective. With discussions on risk and resilience, compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatisation, readers are introduced to the theories and practical applications of developing a professional model for maintaining wellbeing and self-care in their work.
Autorenporträt
Margaret Pack is Associate Professor of Social Work and Deputy Head of School, Allied Health Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include trauma and stress, theories of clinician self-care and social workers' theories for practice. She has a strong interest and training in Gestalt psychotherapy. She has worked in a national sexual abuse trauma centre with survivors of sexual abuse trauma as a specialist case manager. Her career has included practice as a mental health social worker, where she has developed new services and managed staff as a team leader. Originally from New Zealand, she has coordinated a national post graduate programme at Victoria University of Wellington and led a team of social work academics at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory.