Module 5: Wellbeing of the caregiver and coping strategies
Summary on this module. Keywords: work-related wellbeing; work engagement; psychosocial risk factors; work-related stress; burnout; ethical stress; palliative care; coping strategies)
Purpose and goals
Purpose 1: to improve the role modeling of carers.
Specific Objectives
- to recognize the main rules related to professional ethic and professional deontology
- to know/recognize one's responsibility in self-care and its importance in the care of others
- to know/understand the main characteristics of the carer role
- to acquire competences related with self management, creativity and problem solving in care work (employee driven innovation)
- to know/understand the main characteristics of the person with dementia-carer relation
- to know/understand vulnerable people's rights and embed them in the care, identifying the situations in which such rights are most commonly neglected
Purpose 2: to improve skills related with stress and burnout management
Specific Objectives
- to know/ recognize the role of job resources into the energizing process of the work engagement
- to know/ recognize the factors that can improve work engagement
- to know/ apply at least one of the individual strategies presented to activate positive gain spirals at work
- to know/ recognize the main work-related risks factors (physicals, biological, mechanical, etc) in the home environment
- to know/ recognize the main psychosocial risks factors (i.e. work/care-life balance) in the home care
- to know/ recognize the work/care-related stress characteristics
- to know/ recognize burnout characteristics
- to know/ identify the causes, symptoms and the emotional effects of stress and burnout (physical, psychological, etc.)
- to know/ recognize the coping strategies characteristics
- to know/ apply individual strategies to reduce symptoms of stress/burnout (physical, psychological, etc.)
- to know/ identify the impact of end of life and loss on caregivers
Content
- Employee driven innovation: self-management, creativity and problem solving in care work
- Professional ethics and deontology (professional confidentiality)
- End-of-life and support role of professionals in preparation for loss
- Preventive strategies of professional risks (burnout, accidents...)
- Work engagement and positive gain spirals at work (those who possess resources are more capable of gain and, initial resources gain begets future gain thus generating “gain spirals”)
- For professional carers:strategies for work-life balance, professional life, working between peers
- Working in emergency/disruptive situations (for example: Covid)