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Vol 42 No. 1 - Self-Care Techniques
Emotion Regulation Skills for Primary Care Physicians
The Singapore Family Physician
Vol 42
No 1
- Self-Care Techniques
21
- 26
1 January 2016
0377-5305
Given the stressful demands of their work, primary care physicians are susceptible to experiencing burnout. Evidence-based strategies to effectively manage emotions at work are essential to preventing physician burnout. This article details the role of emotional regulation in a physician’s workplace, a model for understanding the processes underlying emotion regulation, and the theorised pathways to emotion dysregulation. Finally, this article provides strategies to assist the physician in practicing regular adaptive emotion regulation so as to reduce burnout.