Preventing burnout in professionals and paraprofessionals who work with child abuse and neglect cases: A cognitive behavioral approach to supervision

Trauma-Informed Systems of Care: The Role of Organizational Culture in the Development of Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Compassion Satisfaction

“…This finding has strong practical implications and is supported by the trauma literature. Many trauma experts believe that trauma caregivers are at higher risk for secondary traumatic stress if their entire caseload consists of individuals or animals whohave experienced trauma (Bell, Kulkarni, & Dalton, 2003;Harrison & Westwood, 2009;Pearlman & McKay, 2008;Saakvitne& Pearlman, 1996). This finding supports the ideathat trauma caregivers continuously providing services to survivors of trauma are at higher risk of developing secondary traumatic stress.…”

“…The ProQOL instrument (2009), now in its fifth version, is a 30-item selfadministered survey originally created by Figleyand then transferred to Stamm (2009). The ProQOL has been extensively used in research for various populations who work in the field of trauma including, child, youth, and family workers (Azar, 2000); social workers (Bride &Figley, 2007); and animal workers (Rank, Zaparanick, & Gentry, 2009). In the most recent version, researchers found the following alphas with caregiver populations: secondary traumatic stress alpha .88, burnout .75, and compassion satisfaction .81 (Stamm, 2009).…”

Engaging Our Workforce: How Job Demands and Resources Contribute to Social Worker Burnout, Engagement and Intent to Leave

“…Findings indicated that, over ten years, factors related to social processes such as social support from colleagues and supervisors, feedback, and appreciation acted as resources that buffered against burning out at work (Kalimo et al, 2003). Supervisors can provide a form of support that is frequently found to have a buffering effect on bumout, particularly within the field of child welfare (Azar, 2000;Lloyd, King, & Chenoweth, 2002;Smith, 2005).…”

“…The emotional reaction and response that an organization may require of a worker can conflict with the personal emotional reaction of the worker -thus causing dissonance and stress. The high levels o f emotional demand placed on workers in the health professions may drain workers of their emotional resources and lead to bumout (Azar, 2000).…”

Clinical question

“…Using the mapping facility of PubMed, we found the MeSH terms "burnout" and "cognitive therapy", the latter of which is a subheading of behavior therapy. A search with these terms revealed only one article, by Azart (22), which was assessed as not being relevant to our clinical problem. To increase the number of relevant articles, we used the broader MeSH term "behavior therapy" one level above "cognitive therapy".…”