Professionalism: Resilience and Self-Awareness

Question 1

How can stress be managed so that it doesn’t cause too much distress?

Answer 1

• Grounding
• Breathing and mindfulness
• Connection
• Exercise and nutrition
• General self-care
• Nature

Question 2

What is self-awareness?

Answer 2

Recognising a feeling or thought as it happens. The ability to monitor feelings and thoughts from moment-to-moment is crucial to psychological insight and understanding, and allows us to respond rather than react.

Self awareness helps motivate ourselves and is essential for reaching goals

Also helps to recognise other people’s emotions

Question 3

What is mindfulness?

Answer 3

Mindfulness: cultivated by paying attention in a specific way that is in the present moment and as non-reactively, non-judgementally and openheartedly as possible

Question 4

Outline the key principles of mindfulness?

Answer 4

Key ways of practicing mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn):
* Shift from doing to ‘being’ mode
* Slowing down to nature calmness and self-acceptance
* Observing your own thoughts without getting carried away by them
* Making room for new ways of seeing old problem
* Receiving the interconnectedness of things

Question 5

Why is developing resilience important?

Answer 5

How these are important in the medical field
* Reduces stress
* Improve attention
* Help cultivate self-awareness
* Help cultivate emotional regulation
* Help improve relationships
* Help self-care