Cause and Prevention Burnout in Human Service Staff

Cause and Prevention Burnout in Human Service Staff

Introduction

Burnout is an elusive phenomenon. One can however argue that it develops in a process that involves the person and their work environment. Burnout can be diagnosed as a mental disorder since it is not yet recognized as such. Rather be diagnosed as an adjustment disorder. There is general agreement that the Burnout syndrome is a stress response chronic work (long term and cumulative), with negative consequences at individual and organizational, and has very specific characteristics in areas certain labor, professional, voluntary or domestic, when performed directly with user groups, whether patients with high dependency or disruptive pupils. These cases are the most repeated, this does not exclude others, although it should be noted that the syndrome manifests itself less in the work of type manual, administrative, etc. (Lloyd, 2002). In these cases, work stress is not usually conceptualized Burnout, as general discrimination in the field of psychology.

Discussion

Individual, Cultural, Organizational, Supervisory, and Social Support Factors That Cause Burnout

The cause of "burnout" from a professional working with people who may be infringing the sense of justice not only to him but also to other members of the team: lack of recognition of merit, humiliation and bullying. This leads to "burnout" if a person does not find the strength and the right to actively resist injustice. An important cause of "burnout" in some occupations is a mismatch between the moral and ethical principles of human rights and the fact that it is required to do during his career. This discrepancy could be that workers in the "power" agencies: the police, military, rescue workers, peacekeepers, when they are forced to use in combat, in a critical situation in the disaster techniques and methods that seem inhumane, immoral from the perspective of people living in "peace time "in the welfare of prosperous life, quietly protected by professionals, law enforcement officers. In the literature, it has been found that both personal and situational factors increase the risk of mental decline (Figley, 2002). According to the results of empirical studies, situational factors have a greater impact on mental exhaustion than personal characteristics. Particularly susceptible to emotional exhaustion are the people who feel overloaded at work and interpersonal conflicts over a long period of time.

Table 1: Factors that Contribute To Burnout

Personality

Situational

Age (young people are more prone to emotional exhaustion)

The uncertainty of the role and functional responsibilities

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