How to Reduce (eliminate) Burnout and Increase Happiness, Fulfillment, and Satisfaction While on the Job (any job) is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of supervision meetings, staff training, clinic systems, and performance review. In How to Reduce (eliminate) Burnout and Increase Happiness, Fulfillment, and Satisfaction While on the Job (any job), for this course, the practical stakes show up in better performance, lower drift, and more sustainable team development, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →In the pursuit of happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment the culture at large directs our attention to tangible outcomes, events, and stuff (TOES). And virtually all motivational schemes supplied by the institutions of our world rely heavily, often solely, on the attainment of TOES. Although TOES are essential to the survival of us as individuals and of our species, their attainment will not, indeed cannot, result in lasting happiness, satisfaction, and fufillment (HSF). If they did, then it follows that persons with abundant TOES would also have abundant HSF and this is clearly not the case. The enegetic pursuit of TOES is more likely to produce the opposite of TOES and burnout. The most influential members of our species down through the ages (e.g., Mohammed, Jesus, Buddha, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Skinner, Mother Theresa, Father Flanagan, etc.) abandoned pursuit of TOES and directed their lives towards, and constructed their messages about, benevolent intangible, non-material, metaphysical phenomena (e.g., Mercy, Compassion, Unity, Freedom). A behavior analytic friendly term for this type of phenomena is "abstract tact." This talk will argue that increased HSF results from pursuit of benevolent abstract tacts.
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
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Dr. Patrick C. Friman received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He is the current Vice President of Behavioral Health at Boys Town and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine. He was formerly on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, and Creighton University Schools of Medicine. He was also formerly the Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at University of Nevada. He is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, in three divisions of the American Psychological Association, and of the American Board of Behavioral Psychology. He is the former Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and former President of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. He has published more than 200 scientific articles and chapters and three books. The majority of his scientific and clinical work is in Behavioral Pediatrics and Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Friman’s work in behavioral pediatrics has concentrated on the gap between primary medical care for children on one side, and referral-based clinical child psychological and psychiatric care, on the other. A secondary focus is on adolescent behavior and development. He also specializes in consultation regarding workplace issues such as motivation, dealing with difficult people, change, happiness and pathways to success.
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