ABSTRACT
When Professionals Weep speaks to the humbling and often transformational moments that clinicians experience in their careers as caregivers and healers—moments when it is often hard to separate the influence of our own emotional responses and worldviews from the patient’s or family’s. When Professionals Weep addresses these poignant moments—when the professional's personal experiences with trauma, illness, death, and loss can subtly, often stealthily, surface and affect the helping process. This edition, like the first, both validates clinicians’ experiences and also helps them process and productively address compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
New material in the second edition includes increased emphasis on the burgeoning fields of hospice and palliative care, organizational countertransference, mindfulness, and compassionate practice. It includes thought-provoking cases, self-assessments, and exercises that can be used on an individual, dyadic, or group basis. This volume is an invaluable handbook for practitioners in the fields of medicine, mental health, social work, nursing, chaplaincy, the allied health sciences, psychology, and psychiatry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|8 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|6 pages
When Our Personal Selves Influence Our Professional Work
part II|56 pages
Special Issues in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
part III|60 pages
Specific Populations and Settings
chapter 7|13 pages
Torture, Execution, and Abandonment
chapter 9|8 pages
Professionalism and Our Humanity
part IV|50 pages
Social, Legal, Ethical, and Organizational Influences
chapter 14|14 pages
Futility and Beneficence
part V|34 pages
Implications for Practice
chapter 15|12 pages
The Respectful Death Model
part VI|16 pages
Conclusion
chapter 19|14 pages
The Journey Inside
part VII|8 pages
Epilogue