CCIM 2025
Caritas Attitude - answerIdea that a compassionate caring attitude is the core driving
force in helping relationships. Whatever helpers do is grounded in this compassionate
caring focus.
balanced notion of person responsibility and outcome - answerConcept that if a helper
has no sense of personal responsibility in helping another person, then the helping
action will most likely not be successful. Helpers must have at least some personal
investment for anything positive to happen, but an excessive sense of personal
responsibility is also a problem in which the clinician feels they are completely
responsible for what happens to the patient
- the trap of thinking that because helpers can be effective, they should always be
effective
- people may see helpers as more responsible than you should be
- helper accompany people on their journeys, not do their journeys for them
- being clear and realistic about outcome
- the false dichotomy of curing versus caring
-acknowledging personal limits and competency
compassionate empathetic concern versus emotional detachment or emotional
engulfment - answerCompassionate empathic concern is the balanced center of caring
for a patient between emotional detachment and emotional engulfment. It increases the
intrinsic motivation to help another person relying on the internal value of helping.
Different areas of the brain are at work when displaying empathic concern compared to
emotional detachment or emotional engulfment. Empathic concern reflects an extension
of value to include an interest in the welfare of the other, distinct from oneself, that is
beyond self-interest
therapeutic perspective versus detached objectivity - answerObjective, emotionally
neutral approach to the patient is actually related to the worst kind of medical care. The
ability to gain a therapeutic perspective on a clinical situation is essential to balanced
caring. In order to avoid becoming consumed by a client's pathology, hopelessness, or
despair, helpers need to have access to a broader perspective that comes from our
knowledge base, life experience, and experiences with other clients that serve as a
source of hope and optimism. It is a move that helps a clinician not take what is
occurring personally.
being centered - answerbeing centered for helpers means to be emotionally collected,
and have focused awareness while doing something. It involves the ability to
concentrate even with distractions and to is manage strong emotions of yourself, the
patient, and colleagues. It also involves the ability to shift your mental state smoothly.
, Being centered has at least two facets for helpers including being in a mental state of
optimum emotional management and problem solving and being fully present with the
patient in the situation.
Lifetime of caring as a story with succession of awakenings - answerTo maintain a
sense of balance in clinical work, it can be helpful for clinicians to look at their careers
as a story with a succession of awakenings rather than as a static state achieved after
medical school and remaining the same until retirement. The story of one's life in health
care can be used as a tool for clinician well-being.
Viewing it this way changes how you imagine what is going on in it at any given point.
As a story, your health care career is what led you into medicine, what you were like at
the beginning of training, what training was like, what your early practice was like, and
so on. Themes will emerge in terms of what you had to endure and how you overcame
it. There will be a progression of insights, and you will find yourself later comforting
those at earlier stages with your story of how you got through.
Awareness and use of the Wounded-Healer Archetype - answerIdea that the ability to
help others is tied into having encountered one's own wound or illness. People who are
helping professionals often speak of specific experiences that set them on the journey
to work to heal others. A helpers own wounds, faults, and burdens are part of the
compassion that motivates them and even gives them some of his or her healing ability.
Competence in the skills and interventions of your helping profession -
answerCompetence in the profession or helping role you have is the very foundation of
effective and balanced caring. Compassionate caring is not possible without having
competence in your clinical practice, they are intertwined.
Competence makes patients feels safe, which is a major way of expressing caring to a
patient
Competence is also important for physician well-being. Research has found that most
resilient physicians experience gratification from their ability to treat people medically.
Caring intent is concretely expressed with balance emotional involvement -
answerPatients cannot tell if you care if you do not show them that you care. It is not
enough to care about a person in your mind and heart. You have to show that you care
by the way you act toward them. A clinician who has a caring attitude but does not
express this concretely in his or her behaviors risks not being perceived as caring by the
patient. At the same time, overly expressive clinicians can come across as uncaring and
unhelpful when it dominates what the patient needs to express.
A balanced level of emotional involvement lets patients feel safe, cared for, and heard.
Caring attitudes must be expressed in concrete actions such as asking about what the
patient is going through, listening to the patient, and supporting the patient with words
and touch.
Caritas Attitude - answerIdea that a compassionate caring attitude is the core driving
force in helping relationships. Whatever helpers do is grounded in this compassionate
caring focus.
balanced notion of person responsibility and outcome - answerConcept that if a helper
has no sense of personal responsibility in helping another person, then the helping
action will most likely not be successful. Helpers must have at least some personal
investment for anything positive to happen, but an excessive sense of personal
responsibility is also a problem in which the clinician feels they are completely
responsible for what happens to the patient
- the trap of thinking that because helpers can be effective, they should always be
effective
- people may see helpers as more responsible than you should be
- helper accompany people on their journeys, not do their journeys for them
- being clear and realistic about outcome
- the false dichotomy of curing versus caring
-acknowledging personal limits and competency
compassionate empathetic concern versus emotional detachment or emotional
engulfment - answerCompassionate empathic concern is the balanced center of caring
for a patient between emotional detachment and emotional engulfment. It increases the
intrinsic motivation to help another person relying on the internal value of helping.
Different areas of the brain are at work when displaying empathic concern compared to
emotional detachment or emotional engulfment. Empathic concern reflects an extension
of value to include an interest in the welfare of the other, distinct from oneself, that is
beyond self-interest
therapeutic perspective versus detached objectivity - answerObjective, emotionally
neutral approach to the patient is actually related to the worst kind of medical care. The
ability to gain a therapeutic perspective on a clinical situation is essential to balanced
caring. In order to avoid becoming consumed by a client's pathology, hopelessness, or
despair, helpers need to have access to a broader perspective that comes from our
knowledge base, life experience, and experiences with other clients that serve as a
source of hope and optimism. It is a move that helps a clinician not take what is
occurring personally.
being centered - answerbeing centered for helpers means to be emotionally collected,
and have focused awareness while doing something. It involves the ability to
concentrate even with distractions and to is manage strong emotions of yourself, the
patient, and colleagues. It also involves the ability to shift your mental state smoothly.
, Being centered has at least two facets for helpers including being in a mental state of
optimum emotional management and problem solving and being fully present with the
patient in the situation.
Lifetime of caring as a story with succession of awakenings - answerTo maintain a
sense of balance in clinical work, it can be helpful for clinicians to look at their careers
as a story with a succession of awakenings rather than as a static state achieved after
medical school and remaining the same until retirement. The story of one's life in health
care can be used as a tool for clinician well-being.
Viewing it this way changes how you imagine what is going on in it at any given point.
As a story, your health care career is what led you into medicine, what you were like at
the beginning of training, what training was like, what your early practice was like, and
so on. Themes will emerge in terms of what you had to endure and how you overcame
it. There will be a progression of insights, and you will find yourself later comforting
those at earlier stages with your story of how you got through.
Awareness and use of the Wounded-Healer Archetype - answerIdea that the ability to
help others is tied into having encountered one's own wound or illness. People who are
helping professionals often speak of specific experiences that set them on the journey
to work to heal others. A helpers own wounds, faults, and burdens are part of the
compassion that motivates them and even gives them some of his or her healing ability.
Competence in the skills and interventions of your helping profession -
answerCompetence in the profession or helping role you have is the very foundation of
effective and balanced caring. Compassionate caring is not possible without having
competence in your clinical practice, they are intertwined.
Competence makes patients feels safe, which is a major way of expressing caring to a
patient
Competence is also important for physician well-being. Research has found that most
resilient physicians experience gratification from their ability to treat people medically.
Caring intent is concretely expressed with balance emotional involvement -
answerPatients cannot tell if you care if you do not show them that you care. It is not
enough to care about a person in your mind and heart. You have to show that you care
by the way you act toward them. A clinician who has a caring attitude but does not
express this concretely in his or her behaviors risks not being perceived as caring by the
patient. At the same time, overly expressive clinicians can come across as uncaring and
unhelpful when it dominates what the patient needs to express.
A balanced level of emotional involvement lets patients feel safe, cared for, and heard.
Caring attitudes must be expressed in concrete actions such as asking about what the
patient is going through, listening to the patient, and supporting the patient with words
and touch.
