PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

Self-care for professionals

Mental health month - time to take care of yourself

Studies have shown that offering support for professional help-providers is often quite difficult. There is a list of reasons why it is so: stigma, role reversal discomfort, idea of self-sufficiency or the pressure to be self-sufficient, lack of availability of professional support (supervisors), not recognizing the difficulties on time and so on…

How far you let harshness and negativity go,

until you take actions towards looking for a support?

If you forget your needs or do not take care of them, you are risking with the results of increased stress – burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and vicarious trauma.

Some of the symptoms  you might experience are: increased emotional load, feeling alienated in one's own life, lack of achievement, decreased self-esteem, experience of not being able to influence one's work and private life.

There is research evidence that well-being at work strengthens other areas of life and increases the effectiveness in helping your clients. This is best achieved by proactively taking care of you.

“Youth workers and the threat of vicarious trauma in the professional field. Integrative self-care practice training as an approach for supporting resilience” (2023-1-EE01-KA220-YOU-000159097) co-financed by ERASMUS+

http://safe.egtc.ee