A new book on mental well-being and positive psychology, which aims to provide veterinary professionals with the knowledge and tools to help them with their mental well-being, has been written by Veterinary Practice mental health columnist Laura Woodward.
The book, Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals: A Pre-emptive, proactive and Solution-based Approach, is a practical and evidence-based guide to mental health and resilience for anyone working in the veterinary sector.
It’s six sections offer tools, such as meditation, mindfulness and positive psychology, as well as anecdotes and case studies to help you tackle the issues commonly faced in the profession. Anxiety, compassion fatigue, burnout, client complaints, imposter syndrome and moral injury, to name a few.
Alongside the multitude of effective strategies to help you deal with these problems, learning about the issue you can face during your career can help you discover how to prepare in positive and proactive ways.
“This is a book designed to help the veterinary workforce to enjoy life with all its twists and turns, using evidence-based methods,” says Laura in the foreward to Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals.
“Just one breath, taken mindfully, can change the course of our day. A few days like that and we can change the course of our life, if we choose.”
Laura Woodward, MVB, CertVR, CertSAS, Dip Couns, MRCVS, is a working veterinary surgeon and an accredited counsellor. She is the founder of a counselling and mindfulness practice for veterinary professionals based in the United Kingdom.
Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals is full of insightful and informative information to help any and all veterinary professionals throughout their career, no matter what stage their are currently at.
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, you can order digital and physical copies of Mental Wellbeing and Positive Psychology for Veterinary Professionals: A Pre-emptive, Proactive and Solution-based Approach, via their website.
Fifty percent of the royalties are being donated to VetLife and the other half for the provision of free of charge therapy to veterinary nurses in crisis.
