Author : Daniel E. Reyes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Book Synopsis Tying Wellness Into Action by : Daniel E. Reyes
Download or read book Tying Wellness Into Action written by Daniel E. Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health professionals take more days off for illness than other health-care professionals do, and many practicing counselors perceive their colleagues as stressed, distressed, and even impaired. Hence, counselor-education programs should focus on equipping future practitioners to practice better self-care when dealing with work-related stress. There appear to be numerous gaps in the literature on encouraging wellness in counselors-in-training (CITs), and no rigorous empirical study has been conducted on CITs’ wellness at a faith-based institution. This phenomenological study focused on investigating the lived wellness experiences of seven graduate counseling students at a Christian university, in a program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The study used the Conceptual Mapping Task (CMT) as the instrument for data collection and data verification. Five major themes that emerged were (a) experiencing a crisis/precipitating event, (b) implementing holistic approaches, (c) drawing strength from community support, (d) overcoming perfectionism, and (e) learning which things in life are nonnegotiable. The most significant finding, or the essence of this study, is the suggestion that these CITs’ lived wellness experiences in graduate school included an increase of wellness awareness—transitioning from crisis, through determination, to becoming holistically well.