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Self Care - Coggle Diagram
Self Care
Tools for Member Care Workers (Gardner p. 203-113; Video)
Be a Lifelong Learner: continue to challenge each other to continue to learn, whether it is about oneself or a topic of study. (Video)
Establish and Maintain Professional Growth Relationships: it can help to have someone who is also on the field and have the same issues and grow together in those aspects. (Video)
KNOWLEDGE of the organization, the context, human nature and human behavior, oneself (this one needs to be known before helping others).
Accountability: "the member care person must have a reputation for trustworthiness, integrity, wisdom, and godliness" (Gardner, p. 111)
Relationships: Building a relationship with supervisors, or other personal that are providing services, can become so beneficial when times get hard to manage and you have to build trust to get to the next step.
Resilience (Dodds, p. 50)
This is how someone "bounces back" to work from physical illness, change, or misfortune. It is a time where someone is strengthened in the hardship, process it, and grow from it.
Resilience leaders to freedom from bitterness, anger, resentment, and vengeance. The negative feelings and emotions have become worked through and managed to better serve those around and continue to lead as Christ would.
Resilience includes and leads to a growing sense of esteem. It gives the ability to cope well, process the victories and failures, and give the person a realistic awareness of what life is all about- the bumps in the road to the ultimate goal of the mission.
"Resilience enables us to thrive at work and at home. Some people are resilient even in extremely stressful circumstances. They turn disruptive changes and conflicts from potential disasters into growth opportunities. This is the heart of resilience. It's like finding the silver lining in the cloud. Resilient people resolve conflicts, turn dilemmas into new directions, learn from this process, and become more successful and satisfied in the process... as our times become more turbulent, resilience has never been needed more" (p.51-52; quote from Maddi and Khoshaba)
Emotional, Moral, and Spiritual Maturity (p. 79-90)
Emotional Maturity (some, not all): being able to communicate emotions, putting the needs of others before your own, wisdom to prioritize values, situations, and needs, ability to trust, cognitive reframing (finding the good in a bad situation).
Moral Maturity (some, not all): actions carried out for the good of others rather than one's own convenience, honesty, responsible behaviors within one's organization, integrity in life, working for the best of all.
Spiritual Maturity: this deals with the heart; assessing if the person's motives are in the right spot and are there to lean into other with a Christ- like mindset.
"Spiritual maturity has more to do with who we become and what we
do
than what we do
not do
" (p. 87)
Risk Factors (Dodds, p. 68-101)
Humanitarian Work
Inadequate development or unresolved family of origin issues, problem of evil/ corruption, hostile environments, lack of resources, traumatic circumstances, isolation, chronic high stress.
Four Conditions Requiring Proactive an Reactive Care
Depression, Burnout, PTSD, Adjustment Disorder- all of these are needing short-term and long-term training to be managed in the best ways possible for the person on the field to have ways to deal with them realistically as well as the needed therapy session provided. Proper diagnosis is necessary to be able to understand and assess the conditions.