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Lecture 12: Professional Development & Self-Care - Coggle Diagram
Lecture 12: Professional Development & Self-Care
Professional Development
Registration
Via Psychology Board of Australia (governed by AHPRA)
Renewal of registration
Declare they have completed the minimum requirements for CPD
Random audits
CPD: Continuing Professional Development
30 Hours required each year
Approved areas of practice
15 - 30 hours must be in the endorsed area of practice
If endorsed in two areas; 15 in both
10 Hours of Peer consultation
Must be 10 peer consultation directed AT you
Providing peer consultation counts to 30 overall but not towards your own 10 hours
Involves:
Critical reflection on practice
Consider goals of the overall CPD plan
With a peer face to face or in person
Must be documented in a log book
Active CPD
Not mandatory but recommended to have around 10 hours
Written or oral activities that enhance or test learning
Role playing
Providing peer consultation to others
Seminars with a written test
Oral presentations
CPD Portfolio
How CPD activities relate to development
Evidence: logbooks, recipes, certificates,
Learning plan with desired outcomes
Benefits
Linked to job engagement and wellbeing
Failure = linked to burnout, lower prof standards, unhappiness with profession
Self-efficacy, professional competence, feeling equipped
Non-compliance
Refusal of resgistration
Provisional registration with registration contingent on completion of a specified CPD activity
Performance assessment
Examination
Disciplinary proceedings
Self-care
What to do when burnout occurs as a psychologist
Talk to trusted peer
Seek professional assistance
Talk to supervisor
Combating burnout
Change organisation
Promote job engagement
Make job meaningful, important and challenging
Prevention is key
Organizational priority: staff wellbeing
Reduce mismatch between 6 factors: rewards, control, fairness, community, values, workload
Change individual
Prevention is key
Peer & social support, supervision
Work life- balance
Ongoing education and training minimises feelings of ineffectiveness
Self-care = reduce exhaustion
Work best prior to burnout problems but workplace often provides them only AFTER burnout is identified
Maslach's 3 dimensions of burnout
CYNCISM
Self protective: emotional (stop feeling) and cognitive (stop thinking) distancing
Depersonalisation of the client, increased callousness
An immediate
reaction
to
exhaustion
that grows
INEFFECTIVENESS
Can occur after E and C, especially when overloaded or facing conflict
Can occur at the same time as E and C (when there are insufficient resources to do the job)
Being and feeling ineffective
EXHAUSTION
Distress, anxiety, worry
Avoiding, emotional distancing as a response to stress
Loss of capacity to process emotions
Loss of cognitive capacity (problem solving, memory, attention)
Self care
Importance
Highly important as psychology tools of trade come from self (knowledge, experience, skills, empathy, communication, problem-solving ability)
Poor self care will affect
Motivation, energy, resilience, wisdom, judgement, capacity to think clearly and capacity to deal effectively with out feelings
High burnout in caring professions
Burnout increases....
Dissatisfaction, disappointment, tension, anxiety, boredom, irritability, withdrawal, callousness, cynicism, fatigue, agressive feelings, sexual impulses, failure, substance overuse, emotional displays, complaining, bitching, spreading rumours
Burnout decreases.....
Job engagement, job satisfaction, energy, effort, self-esteem, meaningfulness, fulfillment, pleasure, persistence, pride in work
While most people will experience some symptoms; burnout is identified by a pattern of symptoms at a high level
Factors affecting
PERSONALITY/DEMOGRAPHIC
Increased risk: low hardiness, external locus of control, poor coping styles, low self-esteem, stress-prone
High in trait anxiety, depression, self-consciousness, neuroticism (emotional instability & psych distress)
Type A
Feeling > Thinking types
Many of these traits are common in psychologists; what puts you at risk for burnout is also the traits that enable you to be an effective and empathetic/aware psychologist (superpower)
Younger at risk
Both genders
Unmarried, esp. unmarried men
Higher education (more stressful jobs)
ATTITUDES
Increased risk: higher expectations, perfectionism
SITUATIONAL
Working conditions: insufficient resources, overload, nature of employer
Mismatch theory (Maslach)
Mismatch promotes burnout
REWARDS
COMMUNITY
CONTROL
FAIRNESS
VALUES
WORKLOAD
Type of occupation (eg. caring)