How to Promote Wellbeing

How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing stress, coping with pressure in healthcare settings, recognising signs of impaired decision-making, and much more.Written specifically for busy healthcare practitioners, the book offers focused and succinct chapters on topics ranging from behaviours to improve resilience and mindfulness, to approaches for maintaining work-life balance when confronted with excessive workloads and organisational pressures. Throughout the text, evidence-based tools and techniques are provided to improve the practitioner's health and facilitate the delivery of high-quality care. Covering a wide range of clinical situations and important issues, this book: Examines global, organisational, and individual problem factors affecting mental health and wellbeingDiscusses the impacts of chronic stress, burnout, technological and environmental factors, work-associated trauma, and sources of wellbeing strainIdentifies factors that negatively affect patients’ wellbeing in hospital, clinic, and outpatient settingsOffers guidance for emergencies and available resources for those in personal crisisIncludes a mental health and wellbeing toolkit, including assessments and strategiesHow to Promote Wellbeing is indispensable reading for doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, counsellors, and other clinicians and health professionals.