NU-646: Week 10 Discussion 1: Provider Self-Care
NU-646: Week 10 Discussion 1: Provider Self-Care
Value: 100 points
Due: Create your initial response by Day 5, and reply to at least two of your classmates by Day 7.
Overview
In the resources section of Week 10, there are specifics related to self-care as a provider. Review the information and then consider what you have learned throughout the course thus far. Knowing your own personality and coping skills, what boundaries and self-care mechanisms do you have as goals to put in place to keep yourself healthy and deter burnout as a provider?
Your post should be a minimum of 300 words. Please do not include any sources. You are expected to describe your thoughts only for this discussion. NU-646: Week 10 Discussion 1: Provider Self-Care
Posting to the Discussion Forum
- Select the appropriate Thread.
- Select Reply.
- Create your post.
- Select Post to Forum.
Week 10: Learning Materials
Readings
Recommended
- American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
- Scan pp. 481–546
- Rollnick, S., Miller, W. R., & Butler, C. C. (2010). Motivational interviewing in health care: Helping patients change behavior (PDF). The Guilford Press. ISBN: 9781593856120
- Chapters 1–4
- Corey, G. (2016). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th ed.). Cengage.
- Review Chapter 7: Patient Centered Therapy
- Review Chapter 13: Postmodern Approaches
- Shea, S. C. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
- Chapter 19: Transforming Anger, Confrontation, and Other Points of Disengagement
- Chapter 20: Motivational Interviewing (MI): A Foundation Stone in Collaborative Interviewing. NU-646: Week 10 Discussion 1: Provider Self-Care
Lecture/Video(s)
Required
Motivational Interviewing: Evoking Commitment to Change Video (05:36 Minutes)
Motivational Interviewing: Evoking Commitment to Change Video Transcript
Motivational Interviewing Decisional Balance Video (10:00 Minutes)
Motivational Interviewing Decisional Balance Video Transcript
Handouts
Required
- Center for Health Training. (2010). OARS Model Handout (PDF)
- Hampton-Newport News Criminal Justice Agency (2013). Evoking Handout (Word). Motivational Interviewing: An Introduction, Hampton-Newport News Criminal Justice Agency.
- Kellogg, M. (2011). Rolling with Resistance Handout (PDF)
Presentations
Required
View these PowerPoint presentations to review key points from this module.
Final Thoughts: Self-Care for the Provider
Tip sheet: This tip sheet for self-care was written by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association organization specifically for psychiatric nurses. However, this applies to ALL providers in health care. Self-care is essential so that you can be healthy to continue to provide services for others to be healthy. Please care for yourself!
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association. (n.d.). Self-care tip sheet for nurses (PDF) (Links to an external site.). APNA. NU-646: Week 10 Discussion 1: Provider Self-Care
Secondly, here is an amazing article that discusses how even as a mental health worker, we are not immune from mental illness or the stigma.
- Freedenthal, S. (2021). When Therapist Struggle with Suicidality: Releasing Ourselves from Stigma and Shame. Psychotherapy Networker.
Video
TED talk video about self-care as a mental health provider:
