Professional Helper Research Articles

“I’m a Prospective Professional Helper, but I’m Vulnerable”: A Mixed Methods Study of the Self-Regulation of Psychology Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences

“I’m a Prospective Professional Helper, but I’m Vulnerable”: A Mixed Methods Study of the Self-Regulation of Psychology Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences

Implikasi Self-care untuk Psychological Well-Being pada Professional Helper

<p class="Abstract"><span lang="IN">This study aimed to (1) describe the process of selecting articles the literature on the implication of self-care on professional helpers’ psychological well-being, (2) describe the role of self-care in professional helpers’ psychological well-being, (3) depict the self-care for professional helpers’ psychological well-being, and (4) describe the form of self-care for professional helpers’ psychological well-being. This approach extends the current knowledge and provides a basis for the policy- making process and practice. The data were collected from twenty-five articles in electronic databases. The data were documented following Siddaway, Wood, and Hedges’ (2018) proposed stages. The data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. Relevant articles were analyzed in-depth to extract necessary information. This study found the selection process for articles in this study was carried out through selecting duplicate articles, selecting titles and/or abstracts, and selecting the entire contents of the articles. Articles agreed that self-care might affect professional helpers’ psychological well-being. Articles view self-care for professional helpers’ psychological well-being as an activity to care for themselves and their profession. Articles divided self-care for professional helpers into two categories: personal self-care and professional self-care. Although studies on self-care for professional helpers’ psychological well-being have been conducted, further understanding of self-care for professional helpers is still necessary. Thus, professional helper associations are recommended to conduct training and monitor self-care implementation. Future studies are recommended to obtain field evidence of self-care to maintain psychological well-being.</span></p>

Psychological Well-Being Guru BK sebagai Professional Helper di Sekolah

This study aimed to obtain a comprehensive depiction regarding school counselors' psychological well-being as a professional helper. The result of this study could be used as the basis for future studies to promote school counselors' psychological well-being. This study found that most respondents had not understood the concept of psychological well-being. However, they reported the majority of psychological well-being dimensions. Most of the respondents were aware of the dimensions of positive relations with others and environmental mastery. Ninety-five school counselors in this study were aware that psychological well-being is pivotal as it supports their professional performance and personal happiness. Future studies are recommended to investigate school counselors' psychological well-being further using other methods, such as case study, RnD, or mixed-method. This kind of study may indirectly improve the school counselors' understanding and competence.

MENTORSHIP AS LEADERSHIP MODEL: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF AUTHENTIC MENTOR-MENTEE

Purpose: The purpose of this study conveys the continuity of leadership in the organization. This is by ensuring that the outgoing leaders who are mentors ensure that upcoming leaders who are mentees would continue with the smooth running of the organization. Mentoring is a holistic concept related to corporate development, personal enhancement, and professional improvement.
 Methodology: This study utilized a descriptive research design and reviewed available literature by reviewing two major types of mentoring, first the career coach and professional helper mentorship, Secondly, psychological mentoring gives personal and cognitive aspects.
 Findings: The study found out that these types of mentorships aim at establishing an understanding of a company's operations such as political and cultural organizational aspects and individual support, improving confidence, seeking professional identity, and role modeling. This leads to a model that would help the mentor who is an all-around individual to instill various skills and knowledge on a mentee to improve their general performance.
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This study recommends mentorship be used in any organization as a leadership model to keep the organizational momentum and maintain its status quo. The government and policymakers could document the use of mentorship as a policy for smooth running of institutions to avoid waste of resources and misuse of power to those in leadership as they will be responsible to mentor others. Researchers could deep deeper into this area to add knowledge and filled the gap of poor leadership.

Infrapolitics of Defiance: Forms of Agency Exhibited by Homeless Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

This article offers a provocative look at practices of false compliance that homeless gender-based violence survivors employ to withstand the personal and structural violence they experience. The article explores how the three instrumentations of disorder, evasion, and subterfuge are used by survivors as forms of veiled resistance, as well as locations that exhibit their agency. Featuring stories from a series of in-depth interviews, the article uses critical theory to examine the specific mechanisms survivors’ use to defy violent power relations. The research employs a grounded theory methodology, using narrative analysis grids to code for dialogic and performative themes that consistently emerge in survivor narratives. Research findings suggest that survivors’ needs may be best met through innovative community-based programming that deinstitutionalizes entry and exit points into support systems. This decenters the role and function of the external professional helper by utilizing trained local community members as key partners in the disruption of violence cycles. This less traditional approach should be accompanied by housing reform policies that effect longer-term structural change by embedding shelter and safety needs in community networks. In the absence of such durable supports, survivors will continue to enact strategies of sabotage and logics of subversion until helping systems are transformed.

"Professional Helper" or "Helping Professional?" The Patient-Physician Relationship in the Chronic Pain Setting, With Special Reference to the Current Opioid Debate.

There seems to be a strong cultural expectation among patients for effective pain relief. As a result, physicians often find themselves trying to bridge the gap between the chronic pain patient's expectations and harsh biomedical reality. The typology of Emanuel and Emanuel of four models for the patient-physician relationship is used in this article as a conceptual tool to examine the possible roles of physicians in the context of chronic noncancer pain. Their typology is reconceptualized as a "pathway" along which the physician is able to walk more or less far, starting from the "information" end of the path. The other end of the pathway is "caring deliberation." I then propose that, in pain medicine today, consumerism is a powerful incentive for physicians to stay at the information end of the spectrum. Against this background, I discuss the current opioid epidemic in the United States and the need for what has been called a new medical professionalism. I conclude by challenging educators involved in pain medicine continuing professional development to not only design adequate biomedical-educational programs, but also consider issues like professionalism, personal development, critical self-reflection, and the ethics of engaging in caring deliberation with chronic pain patients.

Interpersonal processes and self‐injury: a qualitative study using Bricolage

Literature on self-injury has recognized the impact on the relationship between clients and staff. There is an absence of a detailed account of interpersonal processes surrounding self-injury. A Bricolage qualitative research approach was carried out in the United Kingdom that explored the interpersonal processes surrounding self-injury. Three pairs of clients and staff were interviewed about an incident of self-injury. The interviews were thematically analysed and then synthesized producing a deeper exploration of the relationship between the client and staff. An interpersonal trigger followed by anger and shame, resulted in self-injury to 'numb' these experiences. Self-injury is conceptualized as a safety behaviour to avoid shame and anger and then as a maintenance cycle that traps the client in a reinforcing and rejecting relationship. Staff interviewed were able to reflect with the clients and help them reframe these experiences. Mental Health Nurses can work with clients to understand their own interpersonal cycles of self-injury. They can then reflect on their own roles in this process and avoid reinforcing the clients' negative beliefs. WHAT THE STUDY ADDS TO INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE: This is the first international paper to explore the interconnection between the client and a professional helper in their lived experiences of self-injury.

Who Can Help Us? –First Respondents under Pressure

Secondary reactions to stress and how first responders process their own issues following the aftermath of a disaster/emergency event are often overlooked aspects of traumatic events. Those who interact with trauma victims or survivors are themselves exposed to a form of stress, a fact that may go unrecognized for some time after a traumatic event. While trauma survivors are exposed to a primary trauma and the accompanying traumatic stress, secondary responders are exposed to the trauma survivor and the results of their injuries, thereby potentially acquiring their own traumatic stress reaction. The ways in which helpers and first responders are affected may not be obvious because the symptoms are not recognized for what they are and the reaction may not be immediate. The professional helper’s experience is generally confined to secondary exposure. Exceptions include disasters, terrorism attacks, or other emergency events where helpers may be on the scene during a disaster or while victims are still being rescued. It is important that educators, healthcare providers, and community resource personnel understand the importance of secondary stress and be prepared to offer assistance, not only to victims and survivors but also to those who provide first response and their families.

Role of the Professional Helper in Disaster Intervention: Examples from the Wenchuan Earthquake in China

This article highlights the different roles that social workers played in disaster intervention after the Wenchuan earthquake. Using 3 stages (i.e., rescue, temporary relocation, and reconstruction) as a time framework, we describe social workers' roles, their performance, and the achievements and challenges they faced while providing service to the people and communities affected by the earthquake. Moreover, we draw conclusions on best practices and lessons learned, and make recommendations for future practices and research.

Personal loss in health professions graduate students: implications for clinical education in bereavement

Abstract The impact of prior personal grief on the educational experience of health care graduate students participating as co-facilitators in bereavement support groups was examined in this study. Personal experience with the death of a family member or close friend was reported in 80% of participating students. Findings suggest that grief, and the students’ construction of the meaning of their loss, can mediate the students’ developing sense of self as a professional helper. Active engagement with grieving persons, the opportunity for self-disclosure and reflection, and teacher–facilitator provision of emotional guidance and modeling contributed positively to learning.

Research in physiotherapy – selected problems

Abstract Research in the field of physiotherapy creates some controversy. This article seeks to explore and find out the solutions for this issue. Two aspects are discussed: the difficulties in reconciling the specificity of physiotherapy research with methodological standards and the concerns related to patients’ participation in the research. These problems affect the physiotherapists involved in the creation of ethically and methodologically valuable research project. Physiotherapists conducting research struggle to reconcile two sets of values: the role of a researcher and the role of a professional helper. This article discusses the possibility of creating a valuable research project based on the methodological standards within EBM paradigm in relation to the practical aspects of physiotherapy, such as therapy effectiveness and patient-therapist interaction.

A Hard Pill to Swallow: Medication, Empathy, and the Value of Collaborative Recovery

Recovery from mental illness is a complex journey that is greatly facilitated when client and professional helper collaborate in the decision making process. It is further aided when the latter has an empathetic awareness of the client's experience, especially with regard to the impact of pharmacological treatment. The following article describes one psychologist's experience of being prescribed medication during a period of acute illness. Analysis of this experience is via a narrative, phenomenological approach. Results suggest that even when taken as directed, a medication can augment one's subjective feeling of illness. It further shows how challenging it can be for the ailing individual to assert his or her needs for something other than hospitalization. Although only one case is analyzed, it points to the impact that medication may have on the life of a person with mental illness, reinforcing the importance of collaboration and empathetic understanding of the other's experience.

The Impact of Personal Loss on the Experience of Health Professions: Graduate Students in End-of-Life and Bereavement Care

This study explored the impact of prior personal experience with grief on self-reported personal and professional development of graduate students in nursing, social work, counseling, pastoral care, and genetic counseling involved as cofacilitators in bereavement support groups, and of medical students observing interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care. Personal experience with death of a family member or close friend was reported in 80% of the 35 participating students. Findings suggest that grief and the students' construction of the meaning of their loss can mediate the students' developing sense of self as a professional helper. Active engagement with suffering persons, the opportunity for self-disclosure and reflection, and teacher-facilitator provision of emotional guidance and modeling contributed positively to learning.

Az onkológiai szakdolgozók érzelmi munkájának vizsgálata a pályaválasztási motivációk tükrében

In the course of their everyday work health care professionals (HCPs) often have to change their true feelings. The literature labels this performance as emotional labor. This article is presenting data on the characteristics of HCPs' most endangered by the negative consequences of emotional labor. Our simple choice question survey was conducted at Debrecen University Medical Healthcare Center with the help of 50 oncology HCPs volunteers. Nearly 90% of the HCPs examined change their true feelings in the course of work. It is very difficult to classify those threatened by the negative upshot of this emotional labor. Due to our research we found appalling differences of work motivation that were tightly interconnected with the respondents' emotional labor and their perceived role/emotional expectations. We succeeded in establishing three clusters and defining each cluster's characteristics. Figures suggest that only somewhat more than the half of the HCPs is authentic professional helper, and 45% of them does not or only slightly perceive the patients' demands concerning their work. Therefore, it is important that the work environment does not only assist the work of HCPs by professional means, but along emotional dimensions as well.

Systemic Assessment and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Families: The BPSS Model in Practice

The purpose of this paper is to describe a collaborative and integrative multisystemic approach to the assessment and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders based on the bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) model, an expansion of the well-known bio-psycho-social model long in use by professionals in a number of disciplines. Accordingly, we define multisystemic as working with the individual (cognitive, affective, spiritual, and physical), family, and other relationship dynamics and the social-cultural and professional helper levels of the system. After a brief review of the disorders in question, the BPSS model and its application to anxiety and depression are outlined. Finally, two case examples illustrate the model.

Reconciling the Roles of Professional Helper and Critical Agent in Health Psychology

Reconciling the Roles of Professional Helper and Critical Agent in Health Psychology

FELLOWSHIP, HELPING, AND HEALING: THE RE-EMERGENCE OF SELF-HELP GROUPS

This article reflects upon three important facets of self-help, e.g., fellowship, helping and healing; it provides an historical and social science base for the re-emergence of a significant voluntary phenomenon—i.e., self-help groups in their contemporary formats, while comparing and contrasting the approaches and limitations of profes sional helper interventions with the positive consequences for personal and/or social change through experiential knowledge gained by members of self-help groups.

Use of medical and mental health care by World War II survivors in The Netherlands.

This study examined the mental and medical health care utilization of World War II (WW II) survivors and the characteristics of survivors seeking professional health care. Forty seven years after the end of WW II, a random sample of 4,057 Dutch WW II survivors answered a four-page questionnaire; 1,461 persons subsequently answered an extensive follow-up questionnaire. Twenty-two percent had sought some form of health care for war-related complaints at some time since WW II. Most consultations were made in the 1940s. More consultations were made to general practitioners or to medical specialists as opposed to mental health specialists. Although the level of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms was most important for discriminating between help-seeking and non-help-seeking respondents, 59% of the highly-exposed respondents with PTSD had not sought professional help in the years 1990-1992. The results show the importance of primary health care in recognizing PTSD symptoms and referring survivors to the appropriate professional helper.

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:The Assessment of Special Educational Needs: International Perspectives by Tony Cline (ed.)Practical Record Keeping for Special Schools by Hazel LawsonSocial Skills Training and the Professional Helper by John and Mary CollinsThe Reality of Dyslexia by John Osmond

Book Review: Social Skills Training and the Professional Helper

Book Review: Social Skills Training and the Professional Helper