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Individual Vulnerability to Professional Distress 189
Figure 11-C
Planning Change Matrix
High Stressors
Low Supports
You are in a position of high
vulnerability. Reduce demands
on your time and energy,
and invest time in
building new relationships.
Use caution in making major
life decisions. Stress-management
techniques may be essential
to avoid illness.
High Supports
Low Stressors
You are in a position of
low vulnerability. You
have adaptational energy
available to increase
change and stimulation in
your life. It is a good time
to take on new challenges.
Your life is delicately balanced.
Unexpected change
could provoke serious
distress-related problems.
Work diligently to balance
stressors with nurturing
people and activities. Set limits
and listen to your earlywarning
signs.
You are understimulated.
First, develop new relationships,
then increase positive
stimulation. Good time to
take on challenges and responsibilities
as long as support
system is developed
first.
themselves to those in need. When workers fail to get such replenishment,
they continue to give and give until they are empty—an emotionally
numb and spent victim of professional distress. For workers in
highly demanding roles, the development of a replenishment network is
an important, if not essential, aspect of reducing one’s vulnerability to
professional distress.
Assess your own replenishment network by completing the diagram
in figure 11-D using the following of instructions.
The Replenishment Network Diagram consists of six circles in which
you will be asked to list the names of people or activities.