Combating Physician Burnout: A Guide for Psychiatrists - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161537227X ISBN 13: 9781615372270

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

By any metric, burnout is a pressing issue in medicine generally and psychiatry specifically―particularly because of its potential impacts on patient care. Combating Physician Burnout: A Guide for Psychiatrists, the first book of its kind to focus on the field of psychiatry, aims to educate psychiatrists about three key concepts: stress, burnout, and physician impairment. Edited by recognized experts on physician burnout, this volume features contributions from domestic and international authorities in the field, including academic and community psychiatrists, those involved in residency and medical student education, and members of the American Psychiatric Association Work Group on Psychiatrist Well-being and Burnout. Five sections lay out the scope of the challenge and outline potential interventions: • The introduction discusses the history and social context of burnout, providing psychiatrists struggling through burnout with important perspective.• The second section, "The Continuum of Stress, Burnout, and Impairment" explores the potential effects of burnout on clinical care and examines depression and suicide among physicians.• Environmental Factors Leading to Burnout" identifies contextual elements that seem to contribute to burnout, including the electronic health record and the challenge of balancing professional and personal demands.• The fourth section of the book discusses a range of systemic and individual interventions, included among them organizational screening for burnout, peer review and support, and mindfulness training and meditation.• The final section, "Ethics and Burnout," tackles the moral challenge burnout poses to the profession of psychiatry. Regardless of career stage, readers will benefit from the unique psychiatric perspective on burnout―and the practical advice on combating its effects―offered by this guide.

About this title

About the Author

Sheila LoboPrabhu, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine and Staff Psychiatrist at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Richard F. Summers, M.D., is Senior Residency Advisor and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. H. Steven Moffic, M.D., is retired tenured Professor of Psychiatry of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

From the Back Cover

A high level of exhaustion, an increased feeling of depersonalization, and a low sense of personal accomplishment--the hallmarks of burnout--are on the rise in medicine. Combating Physician Burnout, the first book of its kind to focus on the field of psychiatry, aims to educate psychiatrists about the three key concepts of stress, burnout, and physician impairment.

Edited by experts on burnout, this volume features contributions from domestic and international authorities in the field. Five sections lay out the scope of the challenge and outline potential interventions. The introduction, which discusses the history and social context of burnout, provides psychiatrists who may be struggling with burnout with much-needed perspective. Subsequent sections discuss the potential effects of burnout on clinical care, contextual elements that may contribute to burnout, potential systemic and individual interventions, and the moral challenge burnout poses to psychiatry.

Psychiatric residents, established psychiatrists, and their employers will find in this guide a unique psychiatric perspective on burnout, as well as practical advice for combating its effects on providers--and on their patients.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161537227X
• ISBN 13: 9781615372270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: LoboPrabhu MD Sheila, Summers Richard F., Moffic MD H. Steven