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

Charles R. Figley

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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 the extent to which physicians experience and suffer from work-related stress; the various manifestations, syndromes, and reaction patterns directly caused by work-related stress; the degree to which physicians are resilient in that they are successful or not successful in coping with these stressors; the theories and direct evidence that account for the resilience; the programs during and following medical school which help to promote resilience; and the agenda for future theory, research, and intervention efforts for the next generation of physicians.

Language: English

Pages: 396

Format: Hardcover

Release: May 01, 2013

ISBN 13: 9780195383263

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

Charles R. Figley

0/5 ( ratings)

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 the extent to which physicians experience and suffer from work-related stress; the various manifestations, syndromes, and reaction patterns directly caused by work-related stress; the degree to which physicians are resilient in that they are successful or not successful in coping with these stressors; the theories and direct evidence that account for the resilience; the programs during and following medical school which help to promote resilience; and the agenda for future theory, research, and intervention efforts for the next generation of physicians.

Language: English

Pages: 396

Format: Hardcover

Release: May 01, 2013

ISBN 13: 9780195383263

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