The Psychometric Properties of the Counselor Burnout Inventory in Greek School Counsellors

Kounenou, Kalliope; Gkemisi, Soﬁa; Nanopoulos, Panagiotis; Tsitsas, George

doi:10.1017/jgc.2018.3

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“…The degree to which professionals experienced occupational burnout was measured by the counselor burnout inventory (CBI) [ 34 ], validated by Kounenou et al [ 35 ], for which the participants had to state the frequency with which they encounter burnout on a 5-point scale (1 = “never” to 5 = “always”). It includes 20 items (e.g., “I feel exhausted due to my work as a counselor/therapist”).…”

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The Interplay among Empathy, Vicarious Trauma, and Burnout in Greek Mental Health Practitioners

Kounenou

Kalamatianos

Nikoltsiou

et al. 2023

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Background. Mental health professionals are at risk of experiencing vicarious trauma and burnout as a consequence of the nature of their work. Studies and scholars so far have demonstrated that empathy interacts directly with burnout, and they imply an interaction with vicarious trauma. However, research has paid little attention to the interplay among vicarious trauma, empathy, and burnout in mental health professionals who practice psychotherapy. This study examines the interplay between mental health professionals’ (those practicing psychotherapy) vicarious trauma and empathy and investigates the ways they contribute to burnout. Methods. The sample consisted of 214 mental health professionals (32 males and 182 females), working in the public and private sectors. Specific instruments were administered online to the sample: (a) an improvised demographic questionnaire (age, gender, education, specialty, years of experience, years of supervision); (b) the Counselor Burnout Inventory, validated for the Greek population by Kounenou et al.; (c) the Vicarious Trauma Scale; and (d) the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy. Results. Correlation analysis showed that empathy and vicarious trauma were positively related to burnout. Moreover, multiple regression analysis revealed that supervision, empathy, and, to a greater degree, vicarious trauma have a significant impact on burnout. Conclusion. Unlike relative research on burnout, gender and work experience did not seem to play a significant role in the prediction of burnout in the present study. Several suggestions for future studies, as well as implications for mental health practitioners, are discussed.

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The Interplay among Empathy, Vicarious Trauma, and Burnout in Greek Mental Health Practitioners

Kounenou

Kalamatianos

Nikoltsiou

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“…Professional learning opportunities contribute positively to an individual's self-efficacy. A study of 180 Greek school career counselors found counselors showed higher confidence, felt empowered after having adequate training access and opportunities, and as a result, it increased their professional efficacy and competencies (Kounenou et al, 2010(Kounenou et al, , 2018. Additionally, programs such as counseling preparation programs or continuous professional training attended by counselors, too, increased their self-efficacy (Malkoç and Sünbül, 2020;Perry et al, 2020).…”

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Malaysian School Counselor’s Self-Efficacy: The Key Roles of Supervisor Support for Training, Mastery Experience, and Access to Training

2021

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The concept of self-efficacy has been widely studied and shown to contribute to individuals’ job satisfaction. For counselors, the concept measures their belief in their ability to conduct counseling sessions. However, it is an understudied area. As Bandura states, self-efficacy and its sources should be investigated and measured within its domain, which in this case is school counseling. This study examined the impact on school counselors’ self-efficacy and job satisfaction of the personal and environmental factors: (a) mastery experience, (b) social persuasion, (c) vicarious learning, (d) physiological and affective state, (e) the access to training, and (f) perceived supervisor support of training. The cross-sectional study involved 541 Malaysian secondary school counselors nationwide via a random sampling-distributed questionnaire. Results which were analyzed using PLS-SEM, with importance-performance functionality embedded in it, indicated that mastery experience, access to training, and perceived supervisor support of training explained 45.6% variance in counseling self-efficacy and together with counseling self-efficacy, contributed 13.2% variance in job satisfaction among the school counselors. The importance-performance map analysis revealed supervisor support of training as of greatest importance in shaping counseling self-efficacy. Counseling self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between mastery experience, access to training, supervisor support toward training, and job satisfaction Arising from this finding is a proposed theoretical framework in which efficacy information (i.e., mastery experience), environmental determinants (i.e., access to training and supervisor support of training) and cognitive determinant (i.e., counseling self-efficacy) corresponded together congruently and lead to higher job satisfaction. Suggestions are also made for training providers, content developers, and policymakers to include these factors in professional development training and continuous education, to sustain the wellbeing of school counselors.

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The Psychometric Properties of the Counselor Burnout Inventory in Greek School Counsellors

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The Interplay among Empathy, Vicarious Trauma, and Burnout in Greek Mental Health Practitioners

The Interplay among Empathy, Vicarious Trauma, and Burnout in Greek Mental Health Practitioners

Malaysian School Counselor’s Self-Efficacy: The Key Roles of Supervisor Support for Training, Mastery Experience, and Access to Training

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