本研究之目的在於了解資深諮商心理師之自我照顧經驗。研究者採用立意取樣方式,邀請四位資深諮商心理師參與此研究,並利用半結構化的深度訪談方式收集資料。本研究採取持續比較法分析訪談資料,研究結果分別以故事形式以及分析解釋結果來呈現。綜合本研究中四位研究參與者的自我照顧經驗,發現如下: 資深諮商心理師的生活經驗可從專業生活與個人生活經驗看到不同時期的變化與主題,在這些變化中資深諮商心理師發展了多元的自我照顧經驗。資深諮商心理師的自我照顧從覺察自我照顧的重要性開始,他們從事的自我照顧策略包括實踐專業所學、照顧身體健康、尋找合適的情緒出口、安排休閒娛樂、靈性力量的支持、滋養的人際網絡、維持思考的活躍、創造支持性的工作場域以及持續的自我覺察。資深諮商心理師的自我照顧促進全人健康之歷程則包含了自我照顧可以調整失衡的生活、自我照顧帶來幸福感受、自我照顧維持全人健康,以及全人健康成就自我價值及助人工作的永續經營。 最後,研究者依據研究結果,針對諮商心理師、相關單位以及未來研究提出建議。
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of senior counselors’ self-care. Qualitative methods involving semi-structured interviews with four participants were employed in this study. The result was analyzed by the constant comparison method. The findings of the study are as follows. 1. There were different changes and themes of life experience of the senior counselors. They had developed plural self-care experiences in these changes. 2. The action of self-care began with being aware of the value of self-care. The self- care strategies of the senior counselors included practicing speciality that they had engaged in, tending the health, caring for emotion, arranging for recreation and amusement, spirituality support, nurturing relationships, activeness of cognition, creating a supportive environment and keeping self-awareness. 3. The process of self-care promoting wellness of the senior counselors included that self-care adjustig the out-of-balance life, self-care bringing the happiness, self-care maintaining the wellness, and the wellness achieving self-value and keeping the clinical work continuously. Suggestions for counselors, counselor education and future research were offered.