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Preventing burnout in professionals and paraprofessionals who work with child abuse and neglect cases: A cognitive behavioral approach to supervision
Author(s) -
Azar Sandra T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(200005)56:5<643::aid-jclp6>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - burnout , psychology , neglect , cognition , child abuse , work (physics) , clinical psychology , human factors and ergonomics , applied psychology , poison control , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , mechanical engineering , engineering
Professionals and paraprofessionals who treat children and families where child maltreatment has occurred are subject to many strains. This article focuses on the potential for burnout in such work. It discusses strategies in supervision to combat early manifestations of burnout and to prevent its full‐blown occurrence. A cognitive‐behavioral framework is used to help supervisors identify the sources of strain, the maladaptive and inflexible assumptions regarding their own capacities as professionals and their own views of families that these strains may violate, and ways to work with supervisees to reduce the impact these violations have. It also addresses supervisors' own reactions to the high level of needs such families and children present and the strain on the supervisory relationship they produce. Institutionally based and systemic issues are highlighted. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 56: 643–663, 2000.