Survey on Selfcare

[Jaime Guerrero]

Dear Psychodrama Professionals,
 
One of my colleagues in graduate school is conducting an online survey on developing a psychometrically sound self-care assessment tool for use with helping professionals. The survey took me less than 10 minutes to complete, so I hope you will consider participating. 
 
Jaime
 
To Whom It May Concern:I would like to invite you to participate in a research study focused on developing a psychometrically sound self-care assessment tool for use with helping professionals. Understanding helping professionals' use of self-care strategies is important, as self-care has been theorized as positively related to wellness and life satisfaction and negatively related to impairment and burnout. If you are a practicing clinician engaged in individual or group mental health counseling or a graduate student in a counseling related field who hascompleted at least one supervised counseling practicum, I am very interested in your experience as a helping professional. As a result of this study, I hope to better understand the prevalence use of self-care behaviors, across different domains of self, while establishing a sound self-report tool to assess helping professionals' use of self-care.The development of a sound self-care instrument can then be used in future research endeavors to study the relationships between helping professionals' use of self-care and wellness, satisfaction, career longevity, depression, distress, and burnout, to name a few. Further research could also explore the contributions of individual and systemic variables on helping professionals' use of self-care. Information can, then, be used to better prepare new counselors for the hazards of the field and to make suggestions for individual and systemic changes to be more supportive of self-care, in efforts to decrease burnout and improve helping professionals' experience of holistic health.The study will require you to complete an online questionnaire regarding your experience as a helping professional and will take approximately 20 to 35 minutes of your time. You will not be asked for any personally identifying information (e.g., name, address, phone number). Your confidentiality is very important and will be protected. If you know of other practicing clinicians (or graduate students) engaged in individual or group mental health counseling who might be interested in participating, please forward this research request to them. The following link contains further information about the study and will enable you to complete the questionnaire online.Survey link:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UsLPw91bUSJ7zIIi61WqJg_3d_3dPassword: healthAfter completion of the questionnaire, you will be eligible to enter a raffle for one of two $50 Target gift cards as an appreciation of your willingness to help, and with an anticipated minimum number of 145 participants, you have approximately 1 in 73 chances of winning one of the gift cards! Thank you so much for your time and consideration!Sincerely,Lynda B. Fereday, M.S., Ed.S.Doctoral Candidate, Counseling PsychologyUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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