2024/12/10 by Deana Goldin, Lisabeth Maria Alvarez, Heidi von Harscher · 3 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · #Cardiac Health and Mental Health #Cognition #Cognitive flexibility #Computer science #Flexibility (engineering) #Health care #Health professionals #Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout #Medicine #Mental health #Need to know #Optimism, Hope, and Well-being #Political science #Psychiatry #Psychology
paper · doi:10.3928/02793695-20241205-03
published in Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 63(4), 20-27 (Slack Incorporated (United States))
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In the aftermath of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, increasing attention has been drawn to the physical and emotional demands of mental health professionals (MHPs) navigating workplace stressors with limited coping mechanisms. As a result, MHPs themselves are at increased risk for developing burnout and mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. In addition, these emotional strains have impacted professional performance and career satisfaction, which poses significant challenges to the profession and patient outcomes. Cognitive flexibility (CF) is a cognitive-behavioral tool that is well-known for scaffolding resilience, encouraging self-awareness, and ameliorating workplace stressors and burnout. CF is also a teachable skill that uses many methods to encourage pre-frontal cortex neuroplasticity and practice. The current brief overview provides simple yet effective tools to enhance CF and safeguard the mental health and well-being of MHPs in the clinical setting. [ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 63 (4), 20-27.]