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Whole Person Self-Care: Self-Care from the Inside Out

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>A discussion of self-care normally begins by focusing on topics such as stress, ways of protecting ourselves from the traumas of the workplace, and encouragement to find sources of self-renewal outside of work.

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Kearney, M., Weininger, R. (2011). Whole Person Self-Care: Self-Care from the Inside Out. In: Hutchinson, T. (eds) Whole Person Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9440-0_10

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