A Systematic Review of Job Demands and Resources Associated with Compassion Fatigue in Mental Health Professionals

Singh, Jagdeepak; Karanika‐Murray, Maria; Baguley, Thom; Hudson, John H.

doi:10.3390/ijerph17196987

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“…In our results, dependence relations emerged concerning compassion satisfaction and all suppression factors. Even in this case, the significant dependences highlighted the role of suppression with reference to the opportunity to experience compassionate clinical circumstances (Zeidner et al, 2013;Ivicic and Motta, 2017;Singh et al, 2020). The role of compassion is currently emerging as a high influencing factor, both related to clinicians and patients and extended to several conditions such as psychopathology, therapy, mental health, image concerns, neurovegetative phenomena, and general health outcomes (Mincȃ et al, 2013;Rosa et al, 2019;Carter et al, 2021;Kim et al, 2021;McKay and Walker, 2021;Turk et al, 2021).…”

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The Role of Suppression and the Maintenance of Euthymia in Clinical Settings

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Background: Defense mechanisms serve as mediators referred to the subjects’ attempt to manage stressors capable of threatening their integrity. Mature defense mechanisms represent the high adaptive group, including suppression, which allows the subject to distance disturbing contents from consciousness. In line with general defensive intents, suppression would preserve stable mood states, as in the case of euthymia. Clinical issues usually disturb homeorhesis, so that the study of subjects’ suppressive tendencies would suggest possible existing relations among defense mechanisms, mood states, and clinical issues. The study highlighted the significant existing relations among factors such as suppression, euthymia, mood states, and clinical psychological phenomena.Methods: The observation group was composed of 150 participants, 51 males (34%) and 99 females (66%), aged from 25 to 30 years old, with a mean age of 26.63 years old (SD = 1.51). The study was conducted through the use of measures related to subjects’ characteristics, euthymia, psychological flexibility and psychological well-being (Euthymia Scale), suppression (Suppression Mental Questionnaire), well-being (Who-5), and compassion (ProQol-5).Results: The performed analyses consisted of descriptive statistics, correlations, differences, and regressions among the considered variables. Starting from the first hypothesis, SMQ factors appeared to be significantly and positively correlated with Euthymia factors, rather than Regression in the Ego service (-). In line with the previous result, significant and positive correlations emerged among SMQ and Well-being (WHO-5) variables, maintaining an inverse relation with Regression in the Ego service. Significant differences emerged between male and female groups concerning SMQ total score and rationalization, with higher male group scores. Finally, significant dependencies emerged among the selected predictors (SMQ variables) and Compassion satisfaction.Conclusion: The emerged results highlighted significant relations among the considered variables so that it was possible to highlight the common directions assumed by suppression variables, well-being, and euthymia. Moreover, suppression appeared as a significant predictor with a causal role in clinical satisfaction. The results that have emerged allow us to consider defenses through an empirical perspective, useful to suggest an extension to other groups, phenomena, and conditions.

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The Role of Suppression and the Maintenance of Euthymia in Clinical Settings

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“…Prior to COVID-19, these professionals already experienced high levels of institutional stress with large caseloads, chronic understaffing and turnover as the norm ( Paris & Hoge, 2010 ; Rupert & Morgan, 2005 ). High doses of indirect trauma exposure for these professionals including foster parents were common as was the risk for developing symptoms of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and related conditions such as burnout ( Bridger et al, 2020 ; Cieslak et al, 2014 ; Hannah & Woolgar, 2018 ; Singh et al, 2020 ; Whitt-Woosley et al, 2020 ). Emerging research on the effects of COVID-19 related stressors and experiences of STS and burnout in professionals and caregivers in foster care found statistically significant increases in STS related symptoms from pre-pandemic baseline to summer 2020 in addition to frequent experiencing of numerous COVID-19 related stressors (blinded for review).…”

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Foster care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of caregiver and professional experiences

Whitt-Woosley

Sprang

Eslinger

2022

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Background Research is needed to facilitate better understanding of how different groups have been impacted by COVID-19, especially those in already strained service systems such as foster care. These inquiries will support further response, recovery and preparedness efforts. Objective This qualitative study addressed how professionals and caregivers in foster care described being affected by COVID-19 in order to support future research and planning for foster care systems in this pandemic context. Participants and setting A sample of foster parents and foster care professionals (N = 357) from a mostly rural, southeastern state in the U.S. participated in the study. Methods Qualitative analysis was conducted of 357 open-ended responses regarding the impact of COVID-19 from a survey distributed in August 2020. Results The coding process resulted in the identification of 15 distinct themes: Isolation & Loss of Social Support, Work Changes/Stressors, School Issues, Childcare Issues, No Impact/Positive Changes, Financial Problems, Fear of Contagion, Negative Child Welfare Impacts, Mental Health Problems/Stress, Loss of Faith/Trust & Societal Frustrations, Health & Mental Healthcare Access Issues, PPE & Testing Issues, Grief & Loss, and Marital Problems. Secondary impacts rather than direct physiologic effects of the virus were primarily reported. Conclusions This study underscores the various challenges facing foster care systems, and how the pandemic context is exacerbating many of these issues. Further research is needed to ensure the implementation of adequately complex and nuanced responses that target needs and avoid creating further problems for foster care.

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“…Taken together, previous research has demonstrated that it is possible to predict CF (Singh et al, 2020;Turgoose & Maddox, 2017), but it is unclear how important these predictors are and how well the non-linear predictive models perform. Moreover, due to the limitation of conventional statistical methods, most studies investigated only one or several predictors of CF and have not obtained the patterns of CF.…”

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confidence: 97%