Counselor Self-Care and Personal Development

The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics, skills, and experiences of master couple therapists and to gain a deeper understanding of how these experts approach the specialized practice of couple therapy. Seven psychologists and two social workers designated by their professional colleagues as “master couple therapists” participated in a qualitative interview and wrote narratives about their skills, characteristics, and experiences. Individuals who nominated these “master couple therapists” were also interviewed to further understand their choice to nominate these particular practitioners. Data from master couple therapists and nominator participants were analyzed using a category construction and thematic analysis process. Three overarching themes emerged from the data and suggested that this group of master couple therapists demonstrated a remarkable commitment to personal development and self, professional development, and relationships. The importance of engaging in self-care, ongoing learning, and developing strong personal and professional relationships is explored.

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Disruption to Embodiment in Autism, and Its Repair

10.31234/osf.io/3rzsd ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan Delafield-Butt ◽

Pum Dunbar ◽

Colwyn Trevarthen

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Self Care ◽

Human Behaviour ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Affective Neuroscience ◽

Fundamental Nature ◽

Sensory Motor ◽

Mind And Body ◽

Basic States ◽

Insight Into

This paper offers a neuroscientific explanation of life with autism which recognises that human behaviour and experience is by nature both personal and interpersonal. With a focus on insights of Penelope Dunbar (Pum) who has lived with autism for decades, we explore an affective neuroscience understanding of autistic experience and how to work creatively with its impulses for health and personal development. Pum describes her autistic disruptions to the intra-personal coherence of her basic states of being, moving-with-feeling in self-awareness, and how this disturbance to her internal subjective coherence of mind challenges her capacity to self-regulate arousal, and communicate with others. By examination of the source of her problems in childhood and ways of working with them, Pum has clarified fundamental elements in the development of her capacity to regulate self-care in creative efforts that facilitate both affective embodiment and sensory-motor coherence in growth of understanding in her mind and body. With her advice we explore how current neurobiological insights in autism as a disruption to the regulation of affective embodiment and sensory-motor integration leads to new recommendations for therapeutic care to relieve autistic distress and restricted modes of being. Although particular to her circumstances and cultivated habits of autistic expression, this analysis offers insight into the fundamental nature of autism, and ways of positive working with one’s autistic nature for creative gains.

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Supervision, Personal Development and Self-Care in Transcultural Counselling

Counselling in Transcultural Settings: Priorities for a Restless World ◽

10.4135/9781473914926.n9 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 115-128

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Self Care

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Personal development and self-care

Professionalism in Medicine ◽

10.1201/9781315377933-8 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 117-133

Author(s):

Jill Thistlethwaite ◽

John Spencer

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Self Care

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Clinical-qualitative Study on Emotional Aspects of Practices and Learning, Interviewing Brazilian Nurses from a Hemato-oncological Unit who Work with Patients in Risk or Death Process

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1151 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S672-S672

Author(s):

R.A. Bastos ◽

E.R. Turato ◽

A.M. Quintana

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Personal Development ◽

Self Care ◽

Well Being ◽

Team Work ◽

University Hospital ◽

Death Process ◽

Ethical Conflicts ◽

Care Practices ◽

Oncology Unit

IntroductionThere is no clear limit between the personal and professional dimension, when the health worker cares for patients who have no prospect of cure. This shadowing of the personal dimension causes high emotional demands of the professional in the face of the experiences with the death.ObjectivesIn face of troubles which surround the nurse in the context of death, this article aimed to identify the learning and self-care practices experienced by nurses who work with patients in risk or in death process, in a haematology-oncology unit.MethodThis is a clinical-qualitative study, conducted through individual interviews. The participants were 6 nurses from haematology-oncology unit of a university hospital, covering the sectors of chemotherapy clinic and children's unit.ResultsThe results highlight two phenomena built by the experiences of nurses: long learning experiences with the team work through the maturity arising over time or even with constant monitoring of the death situations; and self-care practices as self-preservation phenomenon through the development of pain by speaking and listening in groups, the motivation through professional achievement and the well-being caused by the charity care each other.ConclusionsWork towards the personal development of nurses as professional who deals with ethical conflicts should be focused on promoting opening spaces for speaking and listening of these nurses. This allows them to create ways of dealing with situations of death, which are professionally responsible.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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