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Burnout in the Social Work Profession: Now, Then, and With Planning, Maybe Never Again
Abstract
A review of burnout in the social work profession is presented in the chapter. The focus is on social workers' experience of burnout in the pre-pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic eras. Human service professionals have a high probability of experiencing burnout. Burnout has been described as the cost of caring for human service professionals and often occurs when workers are exposed to stressful situations. Having compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, shared trauma, collective trauma and trauma trigger fatigue are all situations that can lead to social worker burnout. Social worker burnout can include feelings of exhaustion, depersonalization and professional inefficacy. The purpose of the chapter is to define social work burnout, explore assessments for burnout, review social work job circumstances associated with burnout and present research on prevention/intervention for social work burnout in the pre-pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic eras.
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