An Invitation to Act on the Value of Self-Care: Being a Whole Person in All That You Do
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DISCUSSION AND REVIEW PAPER
An Invitation to Act on the Value of Self-Care: Being a Whole Person in All That You Do Julia H. Fiebig 1 & Evelyn R. Gould 2
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Siri Ming 3 & Rebecca A. Watson 4
# Association for Behavior Analysis International 2020
Abstract The emergence of COVID-19 resulted in a sudden, unprecedented change in context that impacted the way behavior analysts live and work worldwide. Any rapidly shifting context requires behavioral flexibility, in addition to the acquisition of new skills and access to resources that foster resilience in the face of practical challenges and uncertainty about the future. Behavior analysts (particularly novice practitioners) may already be vulnerable to burnout (Plantiveau, Dounavi, & Virués-Ortega, 2018) and in need of greater support to adopt protective self-care practices. Such practices will enable them to continue providing effective services to distressed families, while navigating their own challenges. This article seeks to offer behavior analysts some tools and practices drawn from the work of contextual behavior scientists that can promote well-being and resilience. This includes strategies for clarifying and committing to an overarching value of self-care, acting congruently with personal and professional values across many domains of living, and practicing self-compassion in the process. Keywords Burnout . COVID-19 . Resilience . Self-care . Self-compassion . Values . Well-being There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the Editor’s Note This manuscript is being published on an expedited basis, as part of a series of emergency publications designed to help practitioners of applied behavior analysis take immediate action to adjust to and mitigate the COVID-19 crisis. This article was submitted on 4/20/20 and received final acceptance on 5/1/20. The journal would like to especially thank Dr. Alyssa Wilson for her expeditious review of the manuscript. The views and strategies suggested by the articles in this series do not represent the positions of the Association for Behavior Analysis, International or Springer Nature. Julia H. Fiebig, Ball State University; Evelyn R. Gould, Harvard Medical School; Siri Ming, Private Practice, Baltimore, Maryland; Rebecca A. Watson, Private Practice, Camden, Maine. * Julia H. Fiebig [email protected] 1
Department of Applied Behavior Analysis, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Private Practice, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Private Practice, Camden, ME, USA
ends of strings that somebody else pulls. (Thurman, 1980, pp. 2–3) Whatever your journey to becoming a behavior analyst has been, it seems safe to assume that a value we share is to help others. The behavioral science community has a longstanding tradition of valuing behavior change of social significan
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