20 eBooks to Read (Package No. 2)

In-depth summaries of the psychology training courses available on the Psy-Training website (H4 Publishing, partner of Education & Family – University of Mons).

Download the 20 training summaries in e-book (PDF) format: today £29 instead of £40.

Psy-Training Compendiums (Package No. 2):

• ADJUSTMENT DISORDER
• AWARENESS AND THE RISE OF ECO-ANXIETY
• BURNOUT AND OCCUPATIONAL EXHAUSTION - CLARIFYING THE CONCEPTS
• COMPASSION FATIGUE
• COPING WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A SERIOUS ILLNESS DIAGNOSIS
• DESILIENCE - A CONCEPT IN OPPOSITION TO RESILIENCE
• EMOTION REGULATION
• FEMALE ALCOHOLISM - CHALLENGES AND SPECIFICITIES
• INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
• INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPTS OF TRAUMA AND STRESS
• INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUE OF SCHOOL BULLYING
• INTRODUCTION TO THE QUESTION OF SLEEP
• Love and Attachment
• PARENTAL BURNOUT
• PERINATAL BEREAVEMENT
• THE COMPLEXITY OF STUDYING PERSONALITIES - AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
• THE MISUSES OF THE CONCEPT OF RESILIENCE
• THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE - A FUNDAMENTAL BOND BETWEEN THERAPIST AND PATIENT
• UNDERSTANDING AND DEALING WITH NARCISSISTIC PERVERTS
• UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ANXIETY

Sample:

BURNOUT AND OCCUPATIONAL EXHAUSTION: CLARIFYING THE CONCEPTS

Detailed summary of the course by Gérard Ostermann, physician and psychotherapist, and Maxime Bellego, psychologist, available on the psy-training website (H4 Éditions, in partnership with Éducation & Famille – University of Mons).

A concept worn thin by everyday use. Ostermann and Bellego observe that “burnout” has become an over-stretched, imprecise label — flooding bookshops and media coverage and applied to almost anything, parental burnout included. This inflation, they warn, threatens to distort the original concept and blunt its clinical usefulness.

Burnout is not occupational exhaustion. A key distinction runs through Ostermann’s argument: burnout chiefly strikes the deeply committed — caregiving professions above all — who end up “burning from within” under the steady pressure of their responsibilities, whereas occupational exhaustion has more to do with the structural and organizational conditions of work. The two overlap, but they do not call for the same treatment.

A tortuous road to official recognition. In 2019 the World Health Organization entered occupational exhaustion caused by chronic stress into ICD-11 — yet general practitioners still face the practical dilemma of what to write on a sick note: “burnout”, “occupational exhaustion”, or “depression”?

[...] To read on, purchase the 20-e-book package — it will then be available in your Psy-Training account.