School psychology trainers' identification of current stressors in the work lives of urban practitioners. A comparison study

A Case Study Exploration into the Benefits of Teaching Self-Care to School Psychology Graduate Students

“…While the exact number and reasons that school psychologists leave the field are unclear, one potential reason that has been proposed is the high level of susceptibility of practitioners to burnout. Research of school psychology practitioners (e.g., Wilczenski 1997;Kaplan and Wishner 1999;Mills and Huebner 1998;Huebner and Mills 1994;Worrell et al 2006) has consistently found that while school psychologists have high levels of job satisfaction, they nevertheless also experience high levels of emotional exhaustion, feelings of depersonalization, and reduced sense of personal achievement, which unmitigated may result in burnout. Newman (2020) proposed that unaddressed burnout can lead to problems with professional competence and engagement in ethically questionable practices.…”