Self-leadership and personal resilience in health and social care /
By: Holroyd, Jane.
Contributor(s): Brown, Keith | Turner, Aaron P.
Series: Learning matters.Publisher: London : SAGE, 2015Description: xv, 184 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473916241; 9781473916241:; 1473916240; 9781473916234; 1473916232.Subject(s): Health services administration -- Social work administration | Health services administration | Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Maturation (Psychology) | Social work administration | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Maturation (Psychology)DDC classification: 362.1068Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 362.1068 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0063772 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- About the author -- Foreword and invitation -- Introduction -- 1 : leadership theories -- 2 : what is self-leadership? -- 3 : the foundations of self-leadership -- 4 : what determines state of mind? -- 5 : self-leadership : neuroscience implications -- 6 : self-leadership and resilience : a key to appropriate professional judgement under pressure -- Appendix : a new framework for easy, effective and sustainable leadership development -- References -- index.
This is essential reading for professionals making judgements under pressure. It demonstrates how self-leadership is not only about surviving but thriving in a continually changing environment and introduces key theories, skills and debates to help professionals deliver high quality professional practice every day. The book focuses in on the quality of professional thinking, self- and social awareness, self-regulation and self-management, and the fundamentals of sustained resilience.