skip to main navigation skip to main content

Self care for health professionals

Self care for health professionals



As with most mental health fields, working with children and families whose lives have been affected by cancer can be an emotionally draining task and therefore it is important for health professionals to consider their own self care in order to prevent professional burn-out.
Self care can be thought of as anything that contributes to emotional, spiritual, physical and/or social rejuvenation, in order to create balance in our lives (specifically balance between work and personal life).

The following websites provide information that encourages a professionals self care and gives tips on how to achieve self care:

back to top