Interactive Staff Training - Rehabilitation Teams that Work

Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; burnout is common. Alleviating such stress is the objective of Interactive Staff Training. The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and their colleagues work as a well-integrated team. This strategy has been implemented in teams serving more than 10,000 persons with psychiatric disabilities. The text combines a careful description of the central theory behind the strategy with pleanty of clinical anecdotes that illustrate its practical, everyday benefits.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. A Paradigm Shift in Staff Training.- 1. The Problem with Staff Training.- 2. An Organizational Approach to Staff Training.- 3. Overview of Interactive Staff Training.- II. The Steps of Interactive Staff Training.- 4. Engaging and Organizing the Rehabilitation Team.- 5. Developing the Program Interactively.- 6. Implementing and Maintaining the Program.- III. Evaluating Interactive Staff Training.- 7. The Difficulty in Measuring Staff Training Effects.- 8. Research on Interactive Staff Training.- IV. Interactive Staff Training in Evolving Service Systems.- 9. Spreading the Influence of Interactive Staff Training.- 10. Epilogue.- Appendixes.- 1. A Glossary of Roles in IST.- 2. Example of a Report Based on the Results of a Staff Needs Assessment.- 3. Program Frameworks for Three Types of Rehabilitation Programs.- 4. Program Principles for Three Programs.- References.

Zusammenfassung

Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and their colleagues work as a well-integrated team.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Patrick Corrigan, Patrick W Corrigan, Patrick W. Corrigan, Stanley G McCracken, Stanley G. McCracken
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.04.2009
• EAN: 9780306455230
• ISBN: 978-0-306-45523-0
• Seiten: 273
• Gewicht: 599 g
• Illustration: XVII, 273 p.
• Serien: Springer Series in Rehabilitation and Health; Springer Series in Rehabilitation and Health
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Angewandte Psychologie; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Angewandte Psychologie