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Working as a Therapy
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From the Bottom to the Top
Florida sets an example in foster care, reports npr.org.
Deep Brain Stimulation Set to Expand
Deep brain stimulation shows promise for some psychiatric disorders, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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 Editor’s E-Note
Nearly everyone is being asked to do more with less these days. Do more work in less time or with fewer resources … or both. We all know the drill now. For many, it is a rude awakening, but social workers are no strangers to these professional restraints. It comes with the territory. When budgets are cut, social services are often the first to go. Despite the stresses familiar to most social workers, the risk of burnout doesn’t go away. Just knowing about one’s occupational hazards doesn’t make them disappear, but raising awareness of the risks contributes to prevention.
In this month’s E-News Exclusive, a seasoned social worker and educator offers tips on how social workers can stay healthy and prevent burnout, a condition for which they are at greater risk during an economic recession. One of the basic truths in the helping professions and any type of caregiving, the importance of self-care cannot be understated: To take good care of others, you must take care of yourself.
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 Burnout Prevention in an Economic Recession
By Diana Rowan, PhD, MSW, LCSW
How can we possibly do more with less? Is this a question you ask yourself? Do you hear others at your agency asking this question? If you are employed in social services, you are likely struggling with the new realities of funding sources drying up while demands for more and varied services increase. These accelerated pressures can bring on symptoms of burnout in human service agency staff at a rate that is higher than usual.
What Is Burnout?
Jerry Edelwich, MSW, in his classic 1980 text on burnout titled Burn-out: Stages of Disillusionment in the Helping Professions, defines the concept of burnout in a worker as “a progressive loss of idealism, energy, and purpose … as a result of the conditions of their work” (p. 14). Conditions producing burnout in the helping professions are said to include not enough training, too large of a caseload, ungratefulness from clients, too many hours, bureaucratic and political constraints, and the inherent gap between aspiration and accomplishment in the helping professions (Edelwich, 1980).
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