Understanding and Supporting Professional Carers

This book contains a Foreword by Michael Carroll, Visiting Industrial Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, and Fellow, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

This practical guide offers easy-to-implement ideas to support health and social care professionals.

With illustrative case studies and in-depth analysis of psychological demands, this book aids understanding of the challenges and stress faced by carers.

Health and social care managers, supervisors and personnel staff will find this information invaluable, as will managers of professional staff in the voluntary sector.

It is also vital for all health and social care professionals, therapists and counsellors. "There are up to date statistics, there are pertinent and widespread examples, there is a comprehensive list of strategies for supporting professional carers and there is a systemic understanding of the roots of stress for practitioners in the helping professions. The author looks inside the professional to articulate how personality, motivation and rationales for choosing their vocations can impact on stress: she looks outside to see how organisational culture and organisational strategies can influence the mental well being of employees." - Michael Carroll, in the Foreword.