The post-covid landscape has unearthed a mental health epidemic in the United States that suggests many people are struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and fear. Perhaps now more than ever, wise, compassionate, grounded clinicians are needed to accompany children, adolescents, adults, groups, couples, and families through challenging life experiences. However, with the increase in care needed, mental health clinicians are at increased risk of experiencing compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.The Resilient Clinician, 2nd Edition, is an updated and much needed guide to preventing and limiting acute and chronic secondary stress in mental health professionals and encouraging and expanding experiences of resiliency, self-awareness, mindfulness, and growth. Informed by positive psychology and infused with compassion and wisdom, this book will encourage clinicians to find, nurture, and maintain the sense of deep perspective needed to be professionally useful and to personally grow.

Introduction: Continually Creating New Inner Psychological Space: An Ongoing Process of MindfulnessCh. 1: Sensing the Dangers: Chronic and Acute Secondary StressCh. 2: Enhancing Resiliency: Strengthening One's Own Self-Care ProtocolCh. 3: Replenishing the Self: Solitude, Silence, and MindfulnessCh. 4: Daily Debriefing: Mindfulness and Positive Psychology as an Integral Part of the Clinician's Ongoing Self-Reflective ProcessCh. 5: Resiliency in the Era of Tele Mental HealthCh. 6: Resilience from a System PerspectiveCh. 7: Growing Weary or Wise: Posttraumatic Growth and Meaning Making Towards WisdomEpilogue: Clinician: An Honorable Profession, a Meaningful LifeAppendix A: Causes of BurnoutAppendix B: A Sampling of Key Signs and Symptoms of BurnoutAppendix C: Steps for Dealing With Daily BurnoutAppendix D: The Basics of Stress ManagementAppendix E: Clinicians' Secondary Stress Self-Awareness QuestionnaireAppendix F: Individual Question Reflection GuideWorks CitedSelected BibliographyPermissionsIndex