Self-Awareness for Health Care Professionals provides ideas and models to enhance self-awareness across the soft skill spectrum—interpersonal skills, communication, social and emotional intelligence quotients, among other abilities, which enable people to appropriately navigate their social environment. Intended to arm health care professionals with the task of becoming self-aware, this robust pedagogy stimulates discussion, personal examination, and reflection. Written in a concise, engaging manner, each chapter gets to the heart of what readers need to learn about their self-awareness and how to apply that awareness in the professional environment. A broad range of topics are covered, including the foundations of self-awareness, personality, metacognition, emotional intelligence, career management, performance and anxiety, professionalism, and much more.

KEY FEATURES

• Self-assessment tools provide readers with validated feedback on various aspects of themselves
• Exercises link self-reflection with career, practice, and clinical effectiveness
• Questions at the end of each chapter aid in the retention of key concepts
• Convenient glossary features definitions of core terms
• Mini case studies covering real-world scenarios woven throughout the book

 2021; 120 pages; softcover