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The Helping Behavior Motivation in the Context of Everyday and Professional Help

Author(s) -

L.G. Shermazanyan

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

counseling psychology and psychotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.173

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2311-9446

pISSN - 2075-3470

DOI - 10.17759/cpp.2015230512

Subject(s) - professionalization , burnout , psychology , everyday life , context (archaeology) , professional development , engineering ethics , social psychology , applied psychology , pedagogy , sociology , political science , clinical psychology , engineering , social science , paleontology , law , biology

The article analyzes and compares the approaches to the study of helping motivation in everyday situations and in the activities of helping professions specialists. A detailed review of studies of factors affecting the motivation of non-professional help is introduced. The main features of the professional helping activities, which define the specifics of professional help, compared with everyday life situations, are highlighted. Factors, affecting the development of professional motivation, are analyzed and problematized in connection with the specific goals and conditions of professional helping activity. Author views the distortions and difficulties of professional motivation formation, including dis- tortions, which lead to the development of emotional burnout. The conclusion concerning the importance of the professionalization of helping motivation as a condition for successful professional development and prevention of burnout is drawn.

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