Showing papers on "Burnout published in 1979"
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TL;DR: Examination of the multiple causes of worker burnout in the child welfare field suggests approaches to prevention, and suggests approaches for prevention.
Abstract: Awareness is growing that worker burnout is a serious problem in the child welfare field. This paper examines the multiple causes of the phenomenon, and suggests approaches to prevention.
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TL;DR: The seeds of staff burnout are planted when mental health professionals who work with long-term patients do not recognize that patients vary greatly in their potential for rehabilitation, which leads to unrealistic expectations and frustrations for staff.
Abstract: The seeds of staff burnout are planted when mental health professionals who work with long-term patients do not recognize that such patients vary greatly in their potential for rehabilitation. This situation leads to unrealistic expectations and frustrations for staff. The concept of normalization, if misapplied, can lead to the same result. Contributing to the frustration is administrative pressure on staff to produce impossible results. Staff's ambivalence about gratifying dependency needs of patients and uncertainty about their own needs and motivations also can lead to burnout.
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16 Nov 1979
TL;DR: Employees in health care settings face significant risk of burnout, which involves negative emotional, psychological, and physical reactions to continuous work-related stress.
Abstract: Employees in health care settings face significant risk of burnout, which involves negative emotional, psychological, and physical reactions to continuous work-related stress.
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TL;DR: Psychological "burnout" among administrators arises from frustrating life "scripts" and/or organizational pressures and may lead to termination, emotional withdrawal, fighting back, or corrective action.
Abstract: Psychological "burnout" among administrators arises from frustrating life "scripts" and/or organizational pressures. Burnout may lead to termination, emotional withdrawal, fighting back, or corrective action. Strategies for prevention or cure include: developing space from work, determining intrinsically meaningful goals, setting up feedback systems, exploring self-actualizing activities.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out that one reason this problem was not widely discussed was because of the concern of counselors that their colleagues would attribute their open expression of disillusionment to their personal weaknesses.
Abstract: In our original article on counselor burnout (P&G, December 1976), John Shelton and I suggested that counselor-education programs created expectations for counseling that could not be realized within agency settings and contributed to counselor frustrations and disillusionment. We pointed out that one reason this problem was not widely discussed was because of the concern of counselors that their colleagues would attribute their open expression of disillusionment to their personal weaknesses. In a reply to the article, David V. Tiedeman (P&G, September 1977) took precisely this position and attributed our motivation for writing the article to our own “mid-life” crisis. This article broadens the issue to one of a fundamental difference in the ways we tend to locate the origins of problems and what this means for bringing about changes.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that solutions to the problem of worker burnout and performance require a systematic assessment of each of these areas to determine how and in what ways they contribute to burnout in any one particular agency.
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TL;DR: This paper reviews and discusses factors associated with burnout-distress phenomena identified in professional literature, identification of factors associated in expanded roles and practice which contribute to burnout stress, and recommendations for strategies to prevent and cope with burn out distress factors.
Abstract: Nurses utilize transcultural, transactional, systems, primary, and interdisciplinary approaches to physiological and psychosocial components of patient care. Expanded roles, as well as advances in knowledge and technology have prepared nurses for critical, specialized, primary, aerospace, and independent nursing practice. Exciting as they are, nursing's expanded roles and practices frequently contribute to the burnout and distress phenomena increasingly observed in practicing health care professionals. Causes and symptoms of the burnout distress phenomena are many and varied. Selye, Shubin, Maslach, and others adeptly identified and wrote on the phenomena as it specifically relates to nurses and the many facets of nursing practice. Rather than utilizing crisis intervention coping techniques, preventive strategies and adaptations are suggested. This paper reviews and discusses: 1. Factors associated with burnout-distress phenomena identified in professional literature; 2. Identification of factors associated with expanded roles and practice which contribute to burnout stress; 3. Identification of factors in military and civilian air ambulance and aeromedical evacuation systems which contribute to burnout stress; 4. Recommendations for strategies to prevent and cope with burnout distress factors.