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Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for Helping professionals

Workplace stress is common to all professions in all fields. Helping professionals are particularly susceptible to workplace stressors because they are tasked with assisting their clients and, at times, the client's family, in times of high need. Research has shown that social workers and other helping professionals can make use of the contemplative practices from religion and spiritual disciplines. These practices can be utilized as tools that help social workers become more intentional and effective change agents as helpers in their work with individuals, families, children, and communities. Mindfulness is meditation in action and involves a ‘be here now’ approach that allows life to unfold without the limitations of prejudgment. It means being open to an awareness of the moment as it is and what the moment could hold. Meditation and mindfulness training is a useful tool in the provision of practitioners’ self-care and in the prevention of burnout, trauma, and other forms of occupational stress (also called compassion fatigue). Mindfulness and meditation are thought to help practitioners become more present centered in their professional and personal lives and to increase overall life satisfaction, self- esteem, and positive emotions such as warmth, empathy, and compassion Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a structured group program that employs mindfulness meditation. Jon Kabat-Zinn was the first to introduce mindfulness training into behavioral health in 1979. He developed an eight- week program that was formerly known as the stress reduction and relaxation program for chronic pain and stress called mindfulness- based. The program, nonreligious and nonesoteric, is based upon a systematic procedure to develop enhanced awareness of moment-to- moment experience of perceptible mental processes. The approach assumes that greater awareness will provide more veridical perception, reduce negative affect and improve vitality and coping.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) ; Workplace stress ; Helping professionals

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