A pilot study of self-care education for psychotherapists.

Q3 Medicine 中南大学学报(医学版) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI:10.11817/j.issn.1672-7347.2024.240185

Defeng Zhang, Wenjin Ma, Jingqiong Tang, Wenjian Wu, Manal Al-Matary, Ziyu Peng, Huishu Yang, Jiakun Hong, Ying Zhou, Guangju Zhao

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Objectives: Existing research shows that psychotherapists may experience secondary trauma and burnout, often neglecting self-care. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of self-care education in enhancing self-care efficacy among psychotherapists and explore factors affecting improvements in their self-care abilities.

Methods: A self-care workshop was conducted for 159 psychotherapists from various fields. Participants' demographic information and self-care ability data were collected. The Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale (ESCA) was used to assess the participant's self-care levels before and after the workshop.

Results: Post-workshop, ESCA total scores and subscale scores of participants showed significant increases (all P<0.001). Notably, score improvement levels differed by gender and years of practice, with female therapists showing greater improvement than male therapists (t=2.069, P=0.040) and those with longer work experience showing greater improvement than those with shorter experience (F=2.537, P=0.042).

Conclusions: Providing self-care education for psychotherapists is essential. Future self-care education programs or interventions for psychotherapists should consider gender and work experience factors to better support their self-care enhancement.

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心理治疗师自我照顾教育的初步研究。

目的：现有研究表明，心理治疗师可能会经历继发性创伤和倦怠，往往忽视自我照顾。本研究旨在探讨自我护理教育在提高心理治疗师自我护理效能的效果，并探讨影响心理治疗师自我护理能力提高的因素。方法：对159名来自不同领域的心理治疗师进行自我护理工作坊。收集参与者的人口统计信息和自理能力数据。采用ESCA自我照顾行为量表（Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale， ESCA）评估工作坊前后参与者的自我照顾水平。结果：工作坊结束后，参与者的ESCA总分和亚量表得分均有显著提高（均P= 2.069， P=0.040），且工作经验较长的参与者比工作经验较短的参与者改善更明显（F=2.537， P=0.042）。结论：对心理治疗师进行自我保健教育是必要的。未来心理治疗师的自我照顾教育或干预应考虑性别和工作经验因素，以更好地支持他们的自我照顾增强。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Central South University (Medical Sciences), founded in 1958, is a comprehensive academic journal of medicine and health sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Central South University. The journal has been included in many important databases and authoritative abstract journals at home and abroad, such as the American Medline, Pubmed and its Index Medicus (IM), the Netherlands Medical Abstracts (EM), the American Chemical Abstracts (CA), the WHO Western Pacific Region Medical Index (WPRIM), and the Chinese Science Citation Database (Core Database) (CSCD); it is a statistical source journal of Chinese scientific and technological papers, a Chinese core journal, and a "double-effect" journal of the Chinese Journal Matrix; it is the "2nd, 3rd, and 4th China University Excellent Science and Technology Journal", "2008 China Excellent Science and Technology Journal", "RCCSE China Authoritative Academic Journal (A+)" and Hunan Province's "Top Ten Science and Technology Journals". The purpose of the journal is to reflect the new achievements, new technologies, and new experiences in medical research, medical treatment, and teaching, report new medical trends at home and abroad, promote academic exchanges, improve academic standards, and promote scientific and technological progress.