Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
Assessing Wellness in Psychology: Examples from Medicine The practice of psychology can be stressful (Hannigan, Edwards, & Burnard, 2004). Commonly reported stressors include excessive work, concerns about poor management, excessive, competing responsibilities, a lack of resources, self-doubt (Hannigan, Edwards, & Burnard, 2004), long hours, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatization around working with patients who have […]
Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
Psychologists engaged in clinical work, like all health professionals, are subject to multiple demands and stressors that at times in their careers can lead to burnout. These stressors include emotional labor of building and maintaining relationships with clients (i.e., attending to their distress, monitoring and regulating one’s own feelings); risk of secondary traumatization in hearing […]
Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
Author Note Ana Laura Thomat, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, 750 East Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210 Roger P. Greenberg, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, 750 East Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, 315-464-3120, [email protected] Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Roger […]
Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
*The views and opinions contained in this essay are those of the authors only and do not reflect the views and opinions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, or the Catholic University of America. Introduction Professional psychologists practicing in corrections assume a wide range of roles. They deliver psychological services to inmates […]
Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
In the wake of nearly 15 years of sustained combat, military psychologists remain heavily employed. The intensity of this employment as well as the unique demands placed on psychologists serving in the military has contributed to job strain and subsequent burnout (Linnerooth, Mrdjenovich, & Moore, 2011). Some have attributed this to operational tempo and nature […]