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DOVE: 4 Factors Influencing Resilience & Vulnerability

DOVE: 4 Factors Influencing Resilience & Vulnerability. D esire to help Powerful O pportunity (counseling) V alues (professional/personal) 4. E ducation (emotional competence). D esire to Help.

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DOVE: 4 Factors Influencing Resilience & Vulnerability

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  1. DOVE: 4 Factors Influencing Resilience & Vulnerability Desire to help Powerful Opportunity (counseling) Values (professional/personal) 4. Education (emotional competence)

  2. Desire to Help • “There’s no one thing that has gotten more psychologists {probably includes all mental health professionals} in [ethical] trouble than the desire to be helpful” (Behenke, 2008, cited in this article), p.70). • E.g., dual relationships/boundaries

  3. Powerful Opportunity • Mental health professionals “have the power to foster change in their clients” and therefore, in however small the measure, “make the world a better place” (Pope & Vasquez, 2007, cited in this article, p. 71). • E.g., abuse of power/good judgment obscured by emotions, not thought.

  4. Values • Mental health professionals share core values; e.g., advancement of knowledge, working for social justice, etc. But values can also represent vulnerabilities. • E.g., wedding, bar mitzvah – (rites of passage as central client value) – therapist understood that part but did not “underscore her empathy for the situation and find alternate ways to strengthen her therapeutic alliance with the clients” (p. 71). Clients hurt & ended therapy. • Private & public school preferences.

  5. Education • Mental health professionals value education & lots of it, mostly of an intellectual nature. Thus we may not give enough attention to “emotional competence”; i.e., “self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and self-monitoring” (Pope & Vasquez, cited in this article, p. 72).

  6. Education (con’t) • Need to recognize emotional assets and weaknesses in doing clinical work. • Self-care essential & refers to more than just avoiding impairment; e.g., avoiding mediocrity and seeking excellence. • Need to continue learning; too many of us do not read journals, books, go to “new kinds” of conferences, use consultation groups and ask for supervision once our careers are established.

  7. Education (con’t) • “Too many professionals complete their training without the emotional education and awareness needed to avoid self-deception and to act in the prudent, considered manner that society expects and that represents professional ethical excellence” (p. 72). Notice the emphasis on emotional self-awareness and its affect on ethical behavior.

  8. Recommendations about DOVE • Ongoing Awareness of the DOVE elements. Seek conversation with peers about these elements. • We (mental health professionals) are people, too, and first. Our emotions are the same as those held by others. • The Quest for Excellence – schedule time for ethical reflection & seek routine consultation & even supervision. • Balance & Self-Care – physical exercise, self-reflection, friendships, leisure time, control in work place, enhance emotional competence. • Monitor on Psychology, April (2012), pp. 68-74.

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