Self-care among the Helping Professionals: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Introduction: Self-care is important in all aspect of our life. Generally, the concept of self-care is not a new term that attracted scholars to conduct relevant studies. Despite the number of self-care research on specific group or issues on the self-care practices, the comprehensive of self-care from the aspect of types, relation and factors of self-care has been relatively limited. Hence, this review synthesizes the available research exploring self-care issues among the helping professionals. Methods: A systematic review was conducted for papers published from year 2017-2021 included qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods articles. Meanwhile, a Reporting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES) was adopted for current study. Two main journal databases, Scopus, Web of Science and additionally Google Scholar and PsycArticles were utilised. Results: The search yield 26 articles that can be analysed systematically. Outcome included identify types of self-care emphasized by helping professionals, relation, and factors influence self-care. Conclusion: Finding synthesizes the latest research on self-care, and highlights the benefits of self-care for the helping professionals. Finally, a number of recommendations were discussed at the end of the research.

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“…Hendrawan et al, (2021) and Kassirer et al, (2019) also highlight the importance specialised training, professional standards, and codes of ethics play in enhancing helping professionals. Furthermore, training, further educational opportunity and benefits for personal development also should be consider by helping professionals (Tan et al, 2023). It is also evident that specialised training is necessary to improve the cultural competency of helping professionals, as highlighted by Costa & Dewaele (2019), who call attention to the lack of training that therapists and counsellors receive in effectively treating clients.…”