The mental health and wellbeing of healthcare practitioners : research and practice / edited by Esther Murray, Jo Brown. - First edition. - 1 online resource

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Esther Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She has thirteen years of experience as a health psychologist and was the first researcher in the United Kingdom to explore the concept of moral injury in medicine. She is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences for healthcare professionals, educators, and students.

Jo Brown is Professor Emerita of Medical Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She has been teaching since 1992 and has specialised in Clinical Communication since 1998. She is a recipient of the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award from Advance HE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Esther Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She has thirteen years of experience as a health psychologist and was the first researcher in the United Kingdom to explore the concept of moral injury in medicine. She is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences for healthcare professionals, educators, and students.

Jo Brown is Professor Emerita of Medical Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She has been teaching since 1992 and has specialised in Clinical Communication since 1998. She is a recipient of the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award from Advance HE.

"In 2015 I started working at a medical school, it was an important move for me as I wanted to be part of how doctors were trained, not only to ensure patients get the best possible care but also to understand how we can support doctors in practicing their profession without being harmed by it. I hadn't taken up a research post, but I had come along with a research idea, I wanted to know how it was that doctors (at this stage of my thinking) could practice for years, see terrible and upsetting things daily, and not be affected by it. I had carried out some literature searches and found concepts like compassion fatigue and burnout, I'd read reports of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in emergency responders, but what I hadn't seen was a systematic approach to understanding what was happening to doctors, and how we could combat it"--

9781119609513 9781119609551 9781119609537

2021007913


Burnout, Professional--prevention & control
Health Personnel--psychology
Compassion Fatigue--prevention & control


Electronic books.

R727.3

610.69

WA 495