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Hot topics in mental Self care when health care working with children and families in the community Tony Dowell Tony Dowell Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice University of Otago Wellington New Zealand This

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Hot topics in mental health care

Tony Dowell

Self care when working with children and families in the community

Tony Dowell Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice University of Otago – Wellington – New Zealand

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This afternoon

  • Work Stress

– Is there a problem ?

  • Life today
  • Underlying themes
  • Assessment
  • Moving on up
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The World today

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Mini exercise

  • Talk to the person next to you.
  • Share one source of work stress

( 2 minutes)

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Stress at work

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Stress at work

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When your day can’t get worse ?

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Stress and burnout in the health professions

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A lot of work –

  • ver a long period
  • f time

About 766,000,000 results (0.51 seconds)

Cooper C L, Rout U, Faragher B. Mental health, job satisfaction , and job stress among general practitioners. British Medical Journal. 1989; 298.366 - 370.

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Firth-Cozens J. Stress in medical undergraduates and house officers. British Journal of Hospital Medicine 1989;41(2):161-4.

Harris LM, Cumming SR, Campbell AJ. Stress and psychological well-being among allied health professionals. Journal of allied health. 2006 Nov 29;35(4):198-207.

Dowell AC, Westcott T, McLeod DK, Hamilton S. A survey of job satisfaction, sources of stress and psychological symptoms among New Zealand health professionals. The New Zealand Medical Journal. 2001 Dec;114(1145):540-3.

Dowell AC, Coster G, Maffey C. Morale in general practice: crisis and solutions. The New Zealand Medical Journal (Online). 2002 Jul 26;115(1158).

Lu H, While AE, Barriball KL. Job satisfaction among nurses: a literature review. International journal of nursing studies. 2005 Feb 28;42(2):211-27.

Salloum A, Kondrat DC, Johnco C, Olson KR. The role of self-care on compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary trauma among child welfare workers. Children and Youth Services Review. 2015 Feb 1;49:54-61.

Salyers MP, Bonfils KA, Luther L, Firmin RL, White DA, Adams EL, Rollins AL. The relationship between professional burnout and quality and safety in healthcare: a meta-

  • analysis. Journal of general internal medicine. 2017 Apr 1;32(4):475-82.
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Types of problems

  • Work Addiction
  • Burnout
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Mental health problem
  • Life stuff
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Work addiction

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Burnout

The cost of working too much – Triad

  • 1. Emotional exhaustion
  • 2. Negative self-esteem, depersonalization
  • 3. Loss of personal satisfaction at work

(work avoidance, unfriendly or irritable behavior, somatic complaints)

Annals July 2001/CPHP 2008

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Causes of Burnout

  • Workload
  • Lack of control
  • Insufficient rewards
  • Extrinsic
  • Intrinsic
  • Breakdown in ‘community’
  • Absence of fairness
  • Conflicting vallues

The Well-Being of Physicians. Am J Med 4/2003

  • Problems with work-life balance
  • Less time availble on chosen tasks
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Compassion Fatigue

  • Affects caregivers only
  • Not the same as “burnout”
  • “A state of tension & preoccupation with individual
  • r cumulative trauma to clients.
  • “Cost of caring too/so much”
  • Many costs
  • Personal Functioning
  • Professional Functioning

Figley, C. R. (Ed.) (1995). Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the

  • traumatized. New York: Brunner/Mazel.
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Psychological Distress

Total Substance 11.4% 8.1% 7.0% Total Depression 18.4% 2.7% 7.7% 1.6% 6.0% Total Anxiety 20.1% 1.0%

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Psychological symptoms among health workers

  • About 30% of us describe

‘significant’ psychological symptoms.

  • About 10% have ‘worrying’

levels of psychological symptoms

  • Most professional groups

score the same

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Common reasons for job stress Health professions

  • Poor job satisfaction
  • Poor teamwork and Staff

relationships

  • Overwork
  • Work adversely affecting

health

  • Overwhelmed with paperwork
  • Frustrated with

bureaucracy / management

  • Work not

acknowledged

  • Making mistakes
  • Dealing with suffering
  • Sleep disturbance
  • Personality factors
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Kids stuff

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Working with young children and families

  • Home visiting
  • Families with problems
  • Powerless to help
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New Zealand

  • 23.7 % of children -
  • ne-parent household

– 84.2 % women. – 20 % - 18 to 24 years

  • High rates of domestic

violence

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Maternal (and family) psychological stress

  • Most mental disorders are

similar in pregnancy and the postnatal period to those experienced at other times.

– High rates

  • 22% Postnatal depression after 6

weeks

  • Your role –

– Assess, Support , Discuss , Refer

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Job satisfaction

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Working in the community

The whole person Time and history Place The world and its uncertainty Partnership

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Predictors of job satisfaction

  • Amount of Autonomy at

Work

  • Relationships With

Colleagues and Fellow Workers

  • Physical Work Conditions
  • Amount Earned and Job

Recognition

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Self Care => Job Satisfaction => Well balanced life

  • Assessment

– Things are amazing – OK – Not OK.

  • Making a plan
  • Sticking to it
  • Not minding too much if it doesn’t work out.
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Step 1

  • Acknowledgement of what you do

Thank you !!!!

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Are you OK ?

  • During the past month, have you often been

bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless?

  • During the past month, have you often been

bothered by little interest or pleasure in doing things?

  • Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge
  • Not being able to stop or control worrying
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Management options – Get Help

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Internet and Apps

  • National Depression Initiative.
  • http://www.depression.org.nz
  • CALM

http://www.calm.auckland.ac. nz/

  • Apps

– Smiling mind – Superbetter – Nature sounds relax and sleep – Acupressure: Heal yourself

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And suitable for everyone

  • Resilience
  • Work Life Balance
  • Lifestyle
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But – Lets be realistic

The 80 – 20 rule

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The capacity for healthy development and successful learning in spite of challenges.” ( B Benard ) Resilience is the capacity to spring back, … in the face of adversity and develop competence despite being exposed to extreme stress. (Henderson and Milstein, 1996)

“ I get knocked down, but I get up again, You are never gonna keep me down “

Tubthumping -Chumbawumba

Resilience

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Resilience

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Resilience

Nurses, Psychologists, Counsellors, Social workers, Doctors

  • Gender (more specifically, being female)
  • Maintaining a work-life balance
  • Laughter/humour (?psychologists doctors),
  • Self-reflection/insight (not investigated in social

workers)

  • Beliefs/spirituality (? - psychologists not investigated

counsellors),

  • Professional identity (not investigated doctors).
  • McCann CM, Beddoe E, McCormick K, Huggard P, Kedge S, Adamson C, Huggard J. Resilience

in the health professions: A review of recent literature. International Journal of Wellbeing. 2013 Mar 7;3(1).

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Building blocks of resilience I have, I am, I can

  • I have

– Supports and supportive people around me

  • I am

– Aware of inner strengths of confidence, self esteem and responsibility.

  • I can

– Use and develop skills and make use of support.

Grotberg E, (1997). The international resilience project

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Work Life Balance

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Work life balance – WORK

  • Work is a must, - make it the best you can.
  • Focus on why you chose your career and what

you enjoy about it.

  • Maintain as much control as you can.
  • Don't complain. Find solutions to problems -

generate positive rather than negative energy.

  • Say “no" when you can.
  • Change hours / flex time if helpful & available.
  • Leave work at work.

Simmons, Susan AJN The American Journal of Nursing112(1):25,26, January 2012.

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HOME

  • Organize, schedule plan.
  • Forward planning and ‘bunching’
  • Decrease your expectations for cleaning,

errands, and other chores. *****

  • Rationalise kids activities.
  • Delegate chores,
  • Agree home division of labour
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SELF – Lifestyle

  • Nutrition. - Every little helps
  • Rituals – Mealtimes – outings
  • Rest, and sleep - 7 to 8 hours a night
  • Exercise – every little helps.

– Increase alertness , productivity, decrease pain, and improves mood.

  • Spend time with friends and relatives.
  • Hobbies .
  • Job opportunities that work for you
  • Reflection, Meditation, “Spirit”.
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A little bit wicked

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Putting it together - In next week

  • List of +ve satisfaction / resilience
  • Sources of stress

– And a (part) solution – Consider help if worried

  • Work Life Balance

– Discuss with family and friends – 1 Change – Discuss Now

  • Own lifestyle

– 1 Change – Discuss Now

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Changing perspectives How Committed / How Capable

  • How committed are you to making those

changes

  • X …..
  • Why isn’t it zero
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Attitude

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Thank you