Complete Self-Care: Transformation through Yoga and Beyond

Complete Self-Care: Transformation through Yoga and Beyond provides therapists, educators, social work practitioners, medical professionals, and students alike with a deep understanding of self-care and the tools to develop an individual self-care plan based upon their personal values, desires, and necessities. The book emphasizes the critical need for those in helping professions to regularly practice self-care in order to provide superior treatment and support to their clients and patients. Though the practice of self-care includes daily tasks such as sleeping and eating regular meals, this book demonstrates to readers that a comprehensive and holistic self-care program also requires deep introspection and personal evaluation. The text invites readers to examine their personal history, coping strategies, cultural and spiritual influences, and more to uncover how their experiences and perceptions shape the world around them. Exercises throughout the book encourage readers to consider their early social conditioning and educational experiences, participate in the ancient practice of yoga, unearth their inner power and intention, and more. Informed by contemporary mental health research and intended to help individuals draw from their own experiences to help others, Complete Self-Care is an ideal text for students preparing to enter helping professions and those already in the field who wish to take their personal care to the next level. Dr. Aileen McCabe-Maucher is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked as a professor at Simmons College, Widener University, and the University of Maryland University College. For more than 20 years, she has worked as a mental health professional and social worker for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Salvation Army, as well as in nonprofit community mental health, child welfare and adoption, hospice, private practice, and drug and alcohol treatment settings. Dr. McCabe-Maucher is a registered yoga teacher and was first introduced to the ancient practice at age three by her maternal grandmother, Dolly McCabe. She earned her doctorate in clinical social work from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a lecturer.