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Counselor Burnout: Causes and Solutions

This document discusses burnout among counselors and other helping professionals. It defines burnout as an emotional exhaustion and impairment resulting from stressful employment that can lead to inability to cope with stress. Symptoms include emotional exhaustion, fatigue, frustration, and lack of personal accomplishment. Factors contributing to burnout include organizational issues, nature of client interactions, over-identification with clients, and individual coping styles. Burnout can cause ethical issues like increased substance abuse and declining client care. Instruments to measure burnout include the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Staff Burnout Scale. Suggested prevention measures include avoiding overidentification, setting boundaries, maintaining self-care, and expecting trial and error.

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Counselor Burnout: Causes and Solutions

This document discusses burnout among counselors and other helping professionals. It defines burnout as an emotional exhaustion and impairment resulting from stressful employment that can lead to inability to cope with stress. Symptoms include emotional exhaustion, fatigue, frustration, and lack of personal accomplishment. Factors contributing to burnout include organizational issues, nature of client interactions, over-identification with clients, and individual coping styles. Burnout can cause ethical issues like increased substance abuse and declining client care. Instruments to measure burnout include the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Staff Burnout Scale. Suggested prevention measures include avoiding overidentification, setting boundaries, maintaining self-care, and expecting trial and error.

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  • Burnout Introduction
  • Burnout Case Study 1
  • Burnout Definition
  • Burnout Symptoms
  • Burnout Case Study 2
  • Factors Contributing to Burnout
  • Burnout Case Study 3
  • Why Burnout is an Ethical Issue
  • Burnout Measurement Instruments
  • Burnout Helpful Resources
  • Suggestions for Maintaining Counselor Stamina
  • Prevention Measures for Burnout
  • References

Burnout

Kate Walker, M.A., LPC-I, LMFTA


Burnout – case
study

Falling Down
Burnout – a working definition

An emotional exhaustion
Syndrome of behavior
Consequence of stressful employment
Impairment that results in the inability to
transcend stressful events
A complex configuration of phenomena
Burnout - symptoms
emotional exhaustionlack of any positive
feelings
fatiguefrustrationapathypsychosomatic
illnesseslistlessnessemotionally
overextendeddepersonalizationunfeeling
reactions to clientslack of personal
accomplishmentglassy eyesfeeling
incompetentanxietyemotionally worn
down
Burnout - case
study Bruce Almighty
Burnout – Factors that contribute to
counselor burnout
Environment Individual Factors
 Organizational  Over-identification/over-
factors involvement with the
 Nature of client- client
helper interactions
 Therapeutic locus of
- perceived inequities control
 Coping style and needs
Burnout - case
study Office Space
Burnout – Why is it an ethical
issue?
Emotional Exhaustion Increased alcohol and drug
Depersonalization, unfeeling use
reactions to clients Employee theft
Lack of personal Declining level and quality
accomplishment or of service to clients
feeling incompetent at Boundary issues
your job Avoidance of involvement
with certain types of
cases
Burnout – Measurement
instruments
• Maslach Burnout Inventory
• The Staff Burnout Scale
• The Tedium Scale
Burnout – Helpful resources

[Link]
Burnout – Helpful resources
Seven Salutary Suggestions for Counselor
Stamina

• Selectivity
• Temporal Sensitivity
• Accountability
• Measurement and Management
• Inquisitiveness
• Negotiation
• Acknowledgement of Agency
Burnout – some prevention
measures
• Avoid overidentification
• Set boundaries
• The battle for initiative
• Clear professional
objectives
• Simple interventions first
• Maintain a sense of
humor
• Self-care
• Expect trial and error
Burnout
•
- references
Arthur, N. (1990). The assessment of burnout: a review of three inventories useful
for research and counseling. Journal of Counseling & Development, 69, 186-189.

• Cottone, R., & Tarvydas, V. (2003). Ethical and professional issues in counseling (2nd
ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education .

• Burnout in the workplace self-test. Retrieved September 30, 2004, from


[Link]

• Osborn, C. (2004). Seven salutary suggestions for counselor stamina. Journal of


Counseling & Development, 82, 319-328.

• Savicki, V., & Cooley, E. (1982, March). Implications of burnout research and theory
for counselor educators. The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1982, March, 415-419.

• Truchot, D., & Deregard, M. (2001). Perceived inequity, communal orientation and
burnout: the role of helping models. Work and Stress, 15, 347-356.

• VanAuken, S. (1979, October). Youth counselor burnout. The Personnel and Guidance
Journal, 1979, October, 143-144.

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