Annual of social work, Vol. 16 No. 1, 2009.
Review article
SOURCES OF PROFESSIONAL STRESS AND BURNOUT SYNDROME AMONG HEALTH CARE SOCIAL WORKERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA
Diana Jeleč Kaker
orcid.org/0000-0002-1371-1771
; Oncologycal institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
Burnout at work in health care is a relatively under-explored topic, so the goal of this work is to determine the level of burnout of health-care social workers in the Republic of Slovenia. The research has proved the level of burnout to be moderate (moderate levels of emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment, low level of depersonalisation). Low depersonalisation is the only diff erence when compared to the results from the American population of
social workers (Maslach,1996), where the emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment are equally distributed among the social workers. The results have shown the need to develop the helping and self-helping skills in order to maintain the mental health of health-care social workers through a more clear defi nition of the role of social workers in health care, establishing quality interpersonal relations and regular seminars on the topic of burnout.
Keywords
Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI ); burnout; professional stress; social work; health care
Hrčak ID:
35436
URI
Publication date:
6.4.2009.
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