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Coaches help clients clarify values and align them with professional and personal goals, an objective of known importance in decreasing physician burnout. Rather than assign uninspiring to-do lists, coaches build motivation by eliciting solutions from clients, thus increasing personal investment, and making next steps obvious, possible, and even invigorating.
J Gen Intern Med 30(4):508–13
In summary, we found that mindfulness-based stress reduction classes induced significant improvements in mental well-being scores and decreased measures of burnout across a broad range of health professionals. Given the increasing levels of stress that healthcare professionals are facing, these mindfulness classes can offer a practical and viable method to decrease stress and improve well-being as healthcare professionals face continued and often increasing pressures in an ever-evolving healthcare system.
INT’L. J. PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE, Vol. 43(2) 119-128, 2012
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