Resources for Therapists
Personal and professional resources to help you grow as a therapist.
Self-care for therapists
- Ken Pope’s website lists 43 books and articles on therapist’s self-care
- Self-Care Assessment Exercises for therapists
- Lifestyle Behaviors
- A Wellness Assessment
- Creating a Self-Care Plan for therapists
- Developing Your Self Care Plan
- Introduction to Self Care
- Zur, Ofer – Resources on Burnout
- PsychOz Article on Self Care
- Seven Types of Self Care Activities For Coping With Stress
Professional adjustment & assessment scales
- Assessment of Burnout -British Medical Association
- Stress and Burnout Questionnaire – Institute for Applied Positive Psychology in Australia
- PROQOL – Professional Quality of Life Elements Theory and Measurement Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress. Vicarious Traumatization and Vicarious Transformation
Self-care resources
Breathing & mood tracking apps
- Healthline’s 2016 list of winners for Anxiety Apps, many of which focus on breath
- Also a good list
- Mood Tracking App
Needs & feelings apps
Strengths assessment
Forgiveness
- Research on Forgiveness
- Jack Kornfield
- Forgiveness Meditation
- Ken Pope has a massive list of published works focusing on forgiveness in therapy, counseling, medicine, and other clinical contexts.
- Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. blog
Communication skill building
Spirituality
Miscellaneous
- Ken Wilber article: A Spirituality that Transforms
- Where I’m From poem
- Carolyn McHugh: The Art of Being Yourself
- Future Me – letter emailed to yourself in future
- Intend App – helps set and reinforce intentions
- Focus@Will – subscription music designed for productivity and focus
- Constructive Rest
- Effects of prolonged sitting, summary of research
- It’s Not About the Nail video
- Happily 4-minute Daily Video
- Quotes on Self-Care
- Self-Care Workshop Quotes
- Poetry from Self-Care Workshop – Poetry RSC presentation
- Humor on Benefits of Being a Therapist