Resilience and Burnout in Social Work: The Role of Education and Professional Training for Sustainable Practice
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https://doi.org/10.54536/ajhp.v4i2.5995Keywords:
Burnout, Education, Resilience, Self-Care, Social Work, Supervision, Sustainable PracticeAbstract
Social work is particularly at risk of burnout due to high emotional demands and structural bottlenecks. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between self-care, resilience strategies and burnout symptoms among social work professionals and to analyse the role of education and supervision for sustainable practice. The basis is a quantitative survey of 121 specialists from various fields of work. The results show that emotional exhaustion is highly pronounced, while cynicism and doubts about effectiveness occur less frequently. Self-care takes place primarily through reflection and social support, but has deficits in sleep hygiene and overtime limitations. Reflection on meaning, professional demarcation and social support are particularly important as protective factors. The experience of meaning is closely related to job satisfaction (r = 0.71), while occupational demarcation causes significantly fewer burnout symptoms (r = –0.52). The study makes it clear that resilience does not arise solely at the individual level, but depends essential, therefore, requires the reduction of workload, the institutional anchoring of supervision, before requires the reduction of workload, the institutional anchoring of supervision and the integration of resilience training into education and training.
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