First Do No Self Harm: Understanding and Promoting Physician Stress Resilience - Hardcover

Figley, Charles; Huggard, Peter; Rees, Charlotte

 
9780195383263: First Do No Self Harm: Understanding and Promoting Physician Stress Resilience
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195383265 ISBN 13: 9780195383263
Publisher: OUP USA, 2013

Synopsis

Keeping doctors happy and productive requires a thorough understanding of the systemic causes and consequences of physician stress, as well as the role of resilience in maintaining a healthy mental state. The pressure of making life-or-death decisions along with those associated with the day-to-day challenges of doctoring can lead to poor patient care and communication, patient dissatisfaction, absenteeism, reductions in productivity, job dissatisfaction, and lowered retention.

This edited volume will provide a comprehensive tool for understanding and promoting physician stress resilience. Specifically, the book has six interrelated objectives that, collectively, would advance the evidence-based understanding of (1) the extent to which physicians experience and suffer from work-related stress; (2) the various manifestations, syndromes, and reaction patterns directly caused by work-related stress; (3) the degree to which physicians are resilient in that they are successful or not successful in coping with these stressors; (4) the theories and direct evidence that account for the resilience; (5) the programs during and following medical school which help to promote resilience; and (6) the agenda for future theory, research, and intervention efforts for the next generation of physicians.

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About the Author

Charles Figley, The Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Distinguished Chair and Professor in Disaster Mental Health at Tulane University and Graduate School of Social Work Professor and Associate Dean for Research, New Orleans, Louisiana

Peter Huggard, Senior Lecturer and Academic Advisor, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Charlotte Rees, Associate Professor in Medical Education, Centre for Innovation in Professional Health Education and Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195383265
ISBN 13 
9780195383263
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
396