Životní spokojenost je dovednost: praktický průvodce praktika do duševní nepohody
| Title in English | Well-being is a skill: a practitioner's practical guide to mental discomfort |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Rationale: A demanding medical school education may foster an unintentional idea among health professionals in the context of health psychology that they know everything that is needed, that they are the ones to give advice, that the main method of prevention is kindly maternal or paternal advice, and that the mind and body are two separate entities. Moreover, they are reinforced in the idea that they must always know, know how and endure. The opposite is often seen as weakness, immaturity and failure. Perhaps because of this, or perhaps because of it, research shows that the prevalence of symptoms of burnout syndrome, depression (including suicide) and mental distress is many times higher among male and female doctors than among groups of people in other professions. It also shows that they are up to six times more likely to divorce compared to the general population and that they are also significantly more likely to be addicted to alcohol, drugs and other psychoactive substances. The same applies to a similar extent to nurses. Also alarming are the numerous findings that doctors are more reluctant or unwilling to seek help in a crisis than those in other professions. Aim: And so we can ask ourselves, are we the proverbial blacksmith's mare, or are we professionals who do what they teach their patients and what also reflects the scientific knowledge of contemporary medicine? We can also ask ourselves what we actually know about mental health promotion and how we think about life satisfaction. What paths to unhappiness do we use ourselves, and what paths do we choose in turn to make our lives better? |