scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT SYNDROME IN SOCIAL WORKERS, EMPLOYED IN COMMUNITY REHABILITATION CENTRES FOR ADDICTIVE DISEASES: THE CONTEXT OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Vida Gudzinskiene ◽  
Andrejus Pozdniakovas ◽  
Jautre Ramute Šinkūnienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Community Rehabilitation ◽  
Communal Relationships ◽  
Client Communication

The article overviews the problematic questions of the study: 1) What interpersonal factors cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centres for addictive diseases; 2) How communal relationships with colleagues can help overcome professional burnout. Research object: interpersonal relationships of social workers. The aim of the article is to reveal possibilities of overcoming professional burnout syndrome on the basis of the experiences of social workers’ interpersonal relationships. Research methods: academic literature analysis, document analysis, the method of a semi-structured interview, quality (content) analysis, summarizing method were used. The study was conducted in January – March of 2020 in the community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases. Empirical research has shown that social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centres for addictive diseases, believe that the threat and risk of professional burnout syndrome arise, first of all, from interpersonal relationships with clients: their negative attitude towards social workers, inadequate client communication culture, lack of positive feedback. Secondly, it is important for social workers to feel emotional and moral support and help of colleagues, share responsibility for work. Joint leisure time improves the quality of communication between colleagues, strengthens the inner relationship in the collective, increases work efficiency.

scholarly journals Individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases

2022 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
Vida Gudzinskiene ◽  
Andrejus Pozdniakovas ◽  
Jautre Ramute Sinkuniene
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Community Rehabilitation ◽  
Syndrome Individual

At the theoretical and empirical levels, the article reveals individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases. Addiction is considered a disease that has aspects of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual nature. Professional burnout syndrome can be understood from different points of view that in total comprise a general concept and consist of the following aspects: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decrease in self-realization. Research object is individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centres for addictive diseases. The aim of the article is to reveal individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases. Tasks: 1) to provide theoretical assumptions about individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome; 2) based on experiences of social workers to reveal individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases. Research methods are academic literature analysis, document analysis, and qualitative research. In the study, semi-structured interviews, quality (content) analysis, summarizing method were used.Empirical research revealed that individual factors that cause the development of professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centres for addictive diseases, are related to: employees’ feelings of inferiority and imposition of excessive requirements on themselves (timidity, self-devaluation; feeling of guilt; lack of self-evaluation skills and imposition of excessive requirements on oneself); personal qualities (too much empathy, attachment to clients or doubts about the meaning of work); individual factors related to the environment (having nobody to talk to about problems, inability to change the environment, prolonged stress, narrowing of interests outside work, and forced abandonment of activities that previously preventively helped to combat professional burnout syndrome). Individual factors related to clients (collapse of hopes to help the client and excessive responsibility of the social worker for the client’s life). Participants of the research became “inaccessible” to family members, were unable to distance themselves from work stress (worries outside work, obsessive thoughts that hinder dissociation from work, inability to relax, use of free time for work activities); felt a lack of general and professional competencies.

scholarly journals Personality Parameters as Predictors of the Burnout Syndrome Development in School Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-25
Author(s):  
Zoya Krecan ◽  
Evgeny Morozov ◽  
Lolita Semke
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
General Description ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Emotional Burnout ◽  
The Relationship

The article features the professional burnout syndrome in teachers. Teaching is one of the most stressful social activities. The authors pointed out personal traits that may determine the development of the professional burnout syndrome in school teachers. They identified, justified, and experimentally verified the relationship between burnout and personality parameters. Together with age, work experience, marital and parental status, these personal traits can serve as burnout predictors. The article gives a general description of the emotional burnout phenomenon in teachers, which includes negative psychological experiences caused by the regular high emotional content or cognitive complexity. The paper also introduces factors of development of emotional burnout. The authors identified the burnout predictors based on the results of an empirical study. They determined strong empathy and internality as provoking factors that triggered emotional stress. As a rule, the stress was associated with teacher's attitude to his or her role in interpersonal relationships. The authors proposed some methods for the prevention of burnout syndrome in teachers.

Perceived negative attitude of others as an early sign of psychosis

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimo K.R. Salokangas ◽  
Markus Heinimaa ◽  
Tanja Svirskis ◽  
Tiina Laine ◽  
Jukka Huttunen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Familial Risk ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Basic Symptoms ◽  
Specific Symptoms ◽  
Current Risk

AbstractAimRisk of psychosis is defined by the presence of positive psychotic-like symptoms, by subtle self-perceived cognitive and perceptual deficiencies, or by decreased functioning with familial risk of psychosis. We studied the associations of psychiatric outpatients' self-reported functioning and interpersonal relationships with vulnerability to and risk of psychosis.MethodsA total of 790 young patients attending psychiatric outpatient care completed the PROD screen [Heinimaa M, Salokangas RKR, Ristkari T, Plathin M, Huttunen J, Ilonen T, et al. PROD-screen – a screen for prodromal symptoms of psychosis. Int J Meth Psychiatr Res 2003;12:92–04.], including questions on functioning, interpersonal relationships and subtle specific (psychotic-like) and non-specific symptoms. Vulnerability to psychosis was assessed employing the patient's written descriptions of specific symptoms. Of the patients vulnerable to psychosis, those at current risk of psychosis were assessed using the Bonn Scale for Assessment of Basic Symptoms [Schultze-Lutter F, Klosterkötter J. Bonn scale for assessment of basic symptoms – prediction list, BSABS-P. Cologne: University of Cologne; 2002] and the Structured Interview for Positive symptoms [Miller TJ, McGlashan TH, Rosen JL, Somjee L, Markovich PJ, Stein K, et al. Prospective diagnosis of the initial prodrome for schizophrenia based on the structured interview for prodromal syndromes: preliminary evidence of interrater reliability and predictive validity. Am J Psychiatry 2002;159:863–65.].ResultsIn all, 219 patients vulnerable to and 55 patients at current risk of psychosis were identified. Vulnerability to psychosis was associated with all items of functioning and interpersonal relationships. Current risk of psychosis, however, was associated only with the subjectively reported negative attitude of others. Negative attitude of others was also associated with feelings of reference at both vulnerability and risk levels.ConclusionThe subjective experience of negative attitude of others towards oneself may be an early indicator of psychotic development.

scholarly journals Social workers in Russia: an assessment of occupational burnout as part a social portrait

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-664
Author(s):  
Irina A. Zaitseva ◽  
Alexander E. Krikunov
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
Professional Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Degree

The article objective was to identify the level of professional burnout and its assessment with reference to a set of social and professional characteristics of social workers in Russia. The research novelty was in considering burnout as part of the social worker’s established image. The authors proceeded from the assumption that social worker occupation, which involves direct contact with people in difficult life situations, is obviously one of the most conducive to the development of an occupational burnout syndrome, and it is perceived in society this way. Low wages, combined with a significant emotional stress, act as factors contributing to the employee’s professional disorganization. Nevertheless, as it was found in the study, in the specific conditions of Russia, the general characteristics of social workers presuppose not only a desire to continue professional activity in the chosen specialty, but also a relatively low percentage of people with a high degree of occupational burnout.

1953 – Professional burnout syndrome among intensive care physicians in salvador, Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
M. Andrade-Nascimento ◽  
D.S. Barros ◽  
C.L. Nascimento Sobrinho
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Professional Burnout

scholarly journals COPING STRATEGIES BY STROKE CAREGIVERS: EVIDENCE FROM A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN SARAWAK, MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Md Mizanur Rahman ◽  
Zabidah binti Putit ◽  
Norliza binti Suut ◽  
Mohamad Taha Arif ◽  
Asri bin Said ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Stroke Survivor ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Community Rehabilitation

Caring for stroke survivors is inevitably a burden to caregivers. It is not uncommon for stroke survivors who are discharged from the hospital and found themselves at home without any help and care from the supposed caregivers. However, in instances where there are available and willing caregivers, a sudden and unpredictable task of caring for stroke survivors require the stroke caregivers to apply their coping strategies due to the demanding nature of looking after a survivor. This study aimed to determine coping strategies undertaken by stroke caregivers in caring for stroke survivors. This was an exploratory qualitative study and data was collected from the caregivers of stroke survivor using a semi-structured guided questionnaire. A total of 18 caregivers were included in the study. The data were collected from November 2015 until June 2016 at a selected community rehabilitation centre in Kuching, Sarawak. The qualitative data analysis revealed that the coping strategies undertaken by stroke caregivers include change of role in life, self-motivation, sharing with other people, crying, trying to forget things that happen, hoping survivors will get better, emotion suppression and self-blame. The study highlighted the experiences by the caregivers for caring for stroke patients and focused on the coping strategies undertaken by the caregivers. Better ununderstanding of these experiences does help the service providers to provide better support and resources for caregivers in caring for stroke survivors.

Socio-psychological factors of emotional burnout in personnel of international missions in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Ірина УШАКОВА ◽  
Соломія РОЖКО
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integral Index ◽  
Psychological Indicators ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Stress At Work ◽  
Emotional Burnout ◽  
The Relationship

The syndrome of emotional (professional) burnout is the state of emotional, mental exhaustion, physical exhaustion, which arises as a result of chronic stress at work. It is a result of the interaction of objective stressful environmental impacts and subjective sociopsychological characteristics of an employee. The structure, stages and indicators of burnout syndrome are theoretically analysed. The study of factors contributing to professional burnout was carried out on the staff of the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) in Ukraine. It was found that about a quarter of the sample has a high integral index of burnout, which is more often manifested through depersonalization and reduction of professional and personal achievements, but emotional exhaustion is less common in our subjects. The analysis of the relationship between the indicators of emotional professional burnout and some socio-psychological indicators of the subjects in our sample showed that the most important for preventing of burnout occurrence are impulsiveness, practicality and internal intrinsic motivation. Positive correlations with burnout rates (can contribute to its emergence) are the duration of service in missions and such coping strategies as search for social support, cautious, manipulative, antisocial and aggressive actions.

The experiences of German social workers working with refugees

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel J Hagues ◽  
David Cecil ◽  
Ken Stoltzfus
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Cultural Immersion ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Related Stress

Summary This study examines the experiences of German social workers who provided services to refugees during the refugee crisis of 2014–2016. Interviews were conducted in 2016 in two regions of Germany, Berlin/Brandenburg ( n = 18) and Würzburg (Bavaria; n = 16). Researchers used a semi-structured interview guide complemented by a five-item Likert-type instrument. Questions explored Social Service Provider’s Background and Training, Refugees’ Needs, Role of Faith in Coping, and Recommendations for Universities and Churches and measure Effectiveness of Services, Adequacy of Resources, Benefits to Refugees, and Extent of Work-Related Stress. Findings A thematic analysis indicates social workers feel Germany has effectively responded to paramount refugee needs. Social workers emphasize the importance of learning to see people “eye-to-eye,” cultivating empathy, cross-cultural competence, overcoming personal biases, and self-reflection. Applications Findings suggest social workers who practice with refugees should devote attention to the development of personal attributes to facilitate effective service delivery (e.g. learning to respond empathetically, practicing self-reflection, and treating refugees as equals) and refining practical skills (e.g. study of refugee and immigration law nationally and internationally and development of cross-cultural knowledge and understanding). Suggestions include learning a greeting in another language or understanding gender roles in different cultures. The usefulness of cultural immersion gained by spending time abroad was highlighted; such experiences allow one to cultivate the ability to be open-minded, encourage the development of a capacity to empathize with members of under-represented groups, and prevent the tendency of seeing refugees or migrants as “the Other” ( Said, 1978 ).

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