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Author: David Schenck Publisher: ISBN: 9780197666760 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This book is written for people who spend the bulk of their days working with others who are suffering. What I want to offer here is an invitation to conversation: a conversation with me, a conversation within yourself, and a conversation with the people with whom you work. A conversation about what it means to spend your days with people whose lives are disrupted by illness or overwhelmed by brokenness. That can be brokenness in bodies. It can be anything from flu to cancer, from sprains to AIDS. It can be traumatic brain injury, severe mental illness, or debilitating chronic conditions. Or it could be families in neonatal units dealing with children with debilitating genetic defects, struggling to make decisions about if, when, and how to end lives. Or violence on the street, or the devastation of a flood-ravaged community. What is it that we can learn from these situations? I put an emphasis on learning because I do believe that if we don't learn every day, if we don't learn every hour, this work will destroy us. It's important to use a word as strong as "destroy." There are reasons not everyone does this work, and there are limits to how much of this work anyone can do. What we must keep asking ourselves is: Why do we do this work? Why are we drawn to those who suffer? What is it that's good about this? And what not so good? What is it that is admirable, and something that we should show enormous compassion and respect to ourselves for? And what is there in it that is self-destructive, that we should be constantly questioning and challenging? To answer these questions, we must get past the assumption that attending to the suffering is entirely saintly and noble, or that it is a symptom of a deep, perverse drive. Much attention is rightly being focused on people who serve on healthcare's front lines. The framework for these discussions tends most often to be the terms "burnout" and "moral distress." These terms certainly point to very real experiences, very painful experiences. Unfortunately, they also often carry with them judgmental messages: "You are failing." "You must do better." What I want to say to you here is that, while these terms point to realities for those of us who have worked with suffering day-in and day-out, they may not help us move and grow into the deeper ranges of compassion and recognition and attention that are possible, unless we supplement them with other constructs and insights. When I say that I want to encourage a conversation within you, part of what I have in mind is this: We are all multiple selves. And one of the things that happens when we work with people and communities that are suffering and in pain-physical pain, psychological pain, spiritual pain-is that distinct pieces of ourselves often respond quite differently to what is going on in front of us. Many different feelings are stirred. We may be terrified, and at the same time move with great compassion, while being also completely exhausted, and madly energized"--
Author: David Schenck Publisher: ISBN: 9780197666760 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This book is written for people who spend the bulk of their days working with others who are suffering. What I want to offer here is an invitation to conversation: a conversation with me, a conversation within yourself, and a conversation with the people with whom you work. A conversation about what it means to spend your days with people whose lives are disrupted by illness or overwhelmed by brokenness. That can be brokenness in bodies. It can be anything from flu to cancer, from sprains to AIDS. It can be traumatic brain injury, severe mental illness, or debilitating chronic conditions. Or it could be families in neonatal units dealing with children with debilitating genetic defects, struggling to make decisions about if, when, and how to end lives. Or violence on the street, or the devastation of a flood-ravaged community. What is it that we can learn from these situations? I put an emphasis on learning because I do believe that if we don't learn every day, if we don't learn every hour, this work will destroy us. It's important to use a word as strong as "destroy." There are reasons not everyone does this work, and there are limits to how much of this work anyone can do. What we must keep asking ourselves is: Why do we do this work? Why are we drawn to those who suffer? What is it that's good about this? And what not so good? What is it that is admirable, and something that we should show enormous compassion and respect to ourselves for? And what is there in it that is self-destructive, that we should be constantly questioning and challenging? To answer these questions, we must get past the assumption that attending to the suffering is entirely saintly and noble, or that it is a symptom of a deep, perverse drive. Much attention is rightly being focused on people who serve on healthcare's front lines. The framework for these discussions tends most often to be the terms "burnout" and "moral distress." These terms certainly point to very real experiences, very painful experiences. Unfortunately, they also often carry with them judgmental messages: "You are failing." "You must do better." What I want to say to you here is that, while these terms point to realities for those of us who have worked with suffering day-in and day-out, they may not help us move and grow into the deeper ranges of compassion and recognition and attention that are possible, unless we supplement them with other constructs and insights. When I say that I want to encourage a conversation within you, part of what I have in mind is this: We are all multiple selves. And one of the things that happens when we work with people and communities that are suffering and in pain-physical pain, psychological pain, spiritual pain-is that distinct pieces of ourselves often respond quite differently to what is going on in front of us. Many different feelings are stirred. We may be terrified, and at the same time move with great compassion, while being also completely exhausted, and madly energized"--
Author: Diane Langberg Publisher: New Growth Press ISBN: 1942572034 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 316
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She's seen slave dungeons in Ghana. Genocide in Rwanda. Systemic sexual abuse in Brazil. Child abuse and domestic violence in the US. After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore. This book will convince you, too, of the healing heart of God. But it's not a fast process, instead much patience is required from family, friends, and counselors as they wisely and respectfully help victims unpack their traumatic suffering through talking, tears, and time. And it's not a process that can be separated from the work of God in both a counselor and counselee. Dr. Langberg calls all of those who wish to help sufferers to model Jesus's sacrificial love and care in how they listen, love, and guide. The heart of God is revealed to sufferers as they grow to understand the cross of Christ and how their God came to this earth and experienced such severe suffering that he too is "well-acquainted with grief." The cross of Christ is the lens that transforms and redeems traumatic suffering and its aftermath, not only for the sufferer, but it also transforms those who walk with the suffering. This book will be a great help to anyone who loves, listens to, and seeks to help someone impacted by trauma and abuse. There is no quick fix, but there is the hope for healing through the love of God in Christ.
Author: David Schenck Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197666736 Category : Languages : en Pages : 161
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Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with illness and injury, and the challenges of healing. Yet this very work, the relief of suffering, inflicts on healthcare providers suffering of their own that is often crippling. The most common terms for the pain caregivers and healers suffer from are burnout and moral distress. These common terms are, however, often used judgmentally--as if those trying to heal others have failed themselves, their colleagues, and their patients. The net result is that much discussion of burnout and moral distress, and the interventions they underwrite, have served only to worsen the crisis. Into the Field of Suffering: Finding the Other Side of Burnout provides a much-needed reframing of burnout and moral distress. These depleting experiences are approached as trials virtually inevitable in the course of the healer's vocation. The challenge medical professionals and caregivers face is not avoiding them, but meeting them directly with insight into the role of moral distress and burnout in the development of their vocation. Into the Field of Suffering presents a set of analytical frameworks and awareness skills, which have the potential to transform the work of healers and caregivers. There is a growing body of academic literature on these topics, and many memoirs recounting distressing situations and wounding traumas. Into the Field of Suffering takes its place alongside these works, while offering a distinctly different approach that treats as essential the spiritual dimension of the healing vocation. Practices, teachings and dialogues to assist in the cultivation of compassion and gratitude are key components in this presentation. Schenck and Neely address their readers in a direct voice, speaking to the sense of failure and discouragement so many healthcare professionals and caregivers experience on a daily basis. This is a book that carries a mentor's voice and presence, born out of experience with burnout and moral distress, and grounded in hundreds of conversations, de-briefings and interviews with healthcare workers and caregivers, patients and families.
Author: Michael Barnett Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801465087 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of the last century, the principles of humanitarianism were guided by neutrality, impartiality, and independence. More recently, some humanitarian organizations have begun to relax these tenets. The recognition that humanitarian action can lead to negative consequences has forced humanitarian organizations to measure their effectiveness, to reflect on their ethical positions, and to consider not only the values that motivate their actions but also the consequences of those actions. In the indispensable Humanitarianism in Question, Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies.
Author: Mark Coleman Publisher: New World Library ISBN: 1608686043 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 337
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Like yoga before it, mindfulness is now flourishing in every sector of society. It is a buzzword in everything from medicine to the military. Mark Coleman, who has studied and taught mindfulness meditation for decades, draws on his knowledge to not only clarify what mindfulness truly means but also reveal the depth and potential of this ancient discipline. Weaving together contemporary applications with practices in use for millennia, his approach empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and wider world. While profound and multilayered, the mindfulness teachings Coleman shares have proved effective in a wide variety of settings. From Suffering to Peace will help readers of all kinds access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness.”
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375703837 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 385
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author: Karen W. Saakvitne Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393702330 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 159
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This workbook provides tools for self-assessment, guidelines and activities for addressing vicarious traumatization, and exercises to use with groups of helpers.
Author: Cynda Hylton Rushton Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190619295 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 304
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Suffering is an unavoidable reality in health care. Not only are patients and families suffering but also the clinicians who care for them. Commonly the suffering experienced by clinicians is moral in nature, in part a reflection of the increasing complexity of health care, their roles within it, and the expanding range of available interventions. Moral suffering is the anguish that occurs when the burdens of treatment appear to outweigh the benefits; scarce human and material resources must be allocated; informed consent is incomplete or inadequate; or there are disagreements about goals of treatment among patients, families or clinicians. Each is a source of moral adversity that challenges clinicians' integrity: the inner harmony that arises when their essential values and commitments are aligned with their choices and actions. If moral suffering is unrelieved it can lead to disengagement, burnout, and undermine the quality of clinical care. The most studied response to moral adversity is moral distress. The sources and sequelae of moral distress, one type of moral suffering, have been documented among clinicians across specialties. It is vital to shift the focus to solutions and to expanded individual and system strategies that mitigate the detrimental effects of moral suffering. Moral resilience, the capacity of an individual to restore or sustain integrity in response to moral adversity, offers a path forward. It encompasses capacities aimed at developing self-regulation and self-awareness, buoyancy, moral efficacy, self-stewardship and ultimately personal and relational integrity. Clinicians and healthcare organizations must work together to transform moral suffering by cultivating the individual capacities for moral resilience and designing a new architecture to support ethical practice. Used worldwide for scalable and sustainable change, the Conscious Full Spectrum approach, offers a method to solve problems to support integrity, shift patterns that undermine moral resilience and ethical practice, and source the inner potential of clinicians and leaders to produce meaningful and sustainable results that benefit all.
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