Burnout Protection:
A Survival Handbook for Foster Parents and Social Workers
Susan Meltsner, MSW
Burnout Protection will help you learn to "ride the waves" and protect yourself from the more debilitating outcomes of burnout. It seeks to assist you to understand what burnout is; understand what causes burnout; assess your own susceptibility to burnout; learn about the actions and attitudes that prevent or reverse the burnout process; begin to make choices and adopt behaviors that will protect you from burning out.
Chapter One: Burnout Defined, describes the symptoms, phases and stages of burnout;
Chapter Two: Causes, explores the systematic and societal, role and relationship, and self-imposed demands that combine to cause burnout;
Chapter Three: Self Assessment Strategies, includes work sheets and discussion to aid you in taking the general information on burnout and applying it to your specific circumstances or lifestyle;
Chapter Four: Stress: Ways to Fight Back, presents the common signs and symptoms of excess stress and suggests a number of techniques to reduce stress;
Chapter Five: The Burnout Protection Inventory, explores and allows you to make choices in relation to a dozen burnout protection measures;
Chapter Six: Supportive Relationships and Time Management, provides strategies and more in-depth discussion of two particularly vital burnout protection measures; and,
Chapter Seven: False Cures and Tips and Rules of Thumb, suggests what to avoid and actions that have worked to directly address some of the specific causes of burnout. Most chapters include work sheets and strategies to enhance your learning of the concepts presented in the text. You are encouraged to complete these in addition to reading the text as the information will become more personal and assist you to take actions to increase overall wellness and decrease your potential to burn out.
#2030 Handbook: $6.50 Each; 10+ Copies-$5.55
#2031 Burnout Protection: Trainer's Guide
To support and enhance the group training process,
the Trainer's Guide provides:
- information on adults as learners;
- suggested training format;
- specific trainer's tips in support of the workbook content;
- a set of transparency masters for the overhead projector or as a guide for preparing flip charts;
- a CD contaning the overhead masters in a PowerPoint presentation and a full color certificate of participation in .pdf form;
- a generic invitation to the training and a certificate of completion along with an evaluation form both designed to be reproduced and used by the trainer - all integrated within the workbook's content.
- In addition, a copy of the #2030 Handbook is enclosed.
#2031 Trainer's Guide - $45.00 Ea.
