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Prescription for Burnout

Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals

AvCarolyn Roy-Bornstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

A compassionate guide to writing your way back to purpose for healthcare professionals.Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are leaving medicine in record numbers due in large part to exhaustion, disillusionment, and a profound loss of joy in their work. In A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, MD, offers a powerful, science-backed remedy to burnout in the healthcare field: reflective writing. This guide is a structured, compassionate companion for those who want to stay in the profession they once loved and renew their sense of purpose. The book is organized around the three dimensions of burnout identified by psychologist Christina Maslach—emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and a perceived lack of efficacy. Each chapter introduces a focused writing practice to help clinicians reconnect with their values, strengthen empathy, and rediscover meaning in their work. Dr. Roy-Bornstein brings more than three decades of experience as a nurse, pediatrician, and narrative medicine educator to this deeply personal and practical work. She knows firsthand how writing can transform grief, trauma, and professional disillusionment into clarity, self-awareness, and healing. These evidence-based and insightful exercises are designed to be brief yet sustaining antidotes to the pace and pressures of modern healthcare. Whether used privately or in groups, in early training or late-career reflection, A Prescription for Burnout offers clinicians not just strategies for surviving the system but tools to reclaim their voice—and their vocation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:304 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421454733

Utforska kategorier

Psykisk ohälsa inom Hälsa och familj
Stress inom Hälsa och familj
Den medicinska professionen inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician and the writer-in-residence at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program. She is the author of Through Thick and Thin: One Foster Family's Eating Disorder Journey and Crash: A Mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief to Gratitude.

Recensioner i media

Roy-Bornstein has provided us tools to navigate the marathon that is a career in healthcare when so much is at stake—the caretaking of ourselves and our patients in a spirit of creativity, self-expression, and dare we aspire—even flourishing.—Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsSection One: Addressing Emotional ExhaustionIntroduction1. Writing for Physical Health2. Writing as Opportunity for Self-Reflection3. Writing to Bear Witness4. Writing as the Heart's Back Door5. Writing as Trauma Narrative6. Writing to Build Resilience7. Writing to Increase Self-Awareness8. Writing to Develop Our Professional Identity9. Writing for Mindfulness10. Writing as GratitudeSection Two: Countering Cynicism11. Writing to Listen12. Writing to Improve Our Powers of Observation13. Writing to Strengthen Our Relationships14. Writing to Gain Perspective15. Writing to Enhance Empathy16. Writing as Self-Compassion17. Writing to Foster Self-Confidence18. Working for Work-Life Balance19. Writing Toward Optimism20. Writing to Set an IntentionSection Three: Restoring Self-Efficacy21. Writing to Find the Wisdom Within22. Writing to Cultivate a Sense of Wonder23. Writing to Regain Our Sense of Agency24. Writing to Flourish25. Writing to Unleash Creativity26. Writing to Increase Tolerance of Ambiguity and Cultivate Openness27. Writing for Connection28. Writing Toward Joy29. Writing Toward Meaning30. Where Do We Go from Here? Writing as a Way of LifeAbout the Author