6: Self-care for Psychiatrists

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Learning objectives

To understand how psychiatrists’ personal health behaviours influence the treatment of their patients

To have an increased understanding of the challenges to improving health and well-being by reflecting on one’s own behaviour

To undertake tasks to improve personal health and well-being to provide insights into the challenges that self-management techniques and lifestyle change can provide for patients

To have knowledge of resources to improve self-care abilities

To appreciate the difficulties and barriers preventing behaviour change and appreciate the challenges to patients

Topic areas

6.1: Introduction to Self-care for Psychiatrists

6.2: Behaviour Change

6.3: Positive Psychology and Signature Strengths

6.4: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, Threat

6.5: Resources

6.6: Goal Setting

6.7: Checking Progress and Dealing with Barriers

6.8: Review of Module 6

Myth or fact?

To begin, try the pre-module test. This test will be repeated at the end of the module.

1. Psychiatrists tend to preach to patients what they themselves practise.

2. The diet and exercise habits of the psychiatrist do not correlate to the support and motivation on diet and exercise provided by the psychiatrist.

3. The stages of change model is more appropriate than motivational interviewing for behaviour change when linked to diet and exercise.

4. Identifying your signature strengths can help promote happiness and positive emotions.

5. A SWOT analysis is a process to solve issues.

6. An appropriate method to improve physical and psychological health is to write about your experiences.

7. The purpose of the stages of change model is to determine a goal statement.

8. Emerging literature suggests that motivational interviewing is no longer an appropriate method to deal with chronic disease behaviours.

9. Psychiatrists often avoid looking after their own health using confidentiality and lack of time as an excuse.

10. Engaging in the initial stages of behaviour change is difficult, maintaining the change is relatively easy.