Location
Culp Center Ballroom
Start Date
4-25-2023 9:00 AM
End Date
4-25-2023 11:00 AM
Poster Number
147
Faculty Sponsor’s Department
Other - please list
Sociology UVAW
Name of Project's Faculty Sponsor
Christa Moore
Competition Type
Non-Competitive
Type
Poster Presentation
Project's Category
Sociology, Mental Health Services
Abstract or Artist's Statement
The phenomenon of burnout in child welfare, human services, and similar forms of care work has traditionally been viewed from predominantly psychological and organizational perspectives. Such perspectives tend to focus on the cluster of symptoms practitioners experience and implications for occupational impairment. A clinical sociology perspective adds to these views by considering the scope of social settings and cultural work practices that produce an environment rife with ecological stressors that, among other negative impacts, produce factors that influence the prevalence of burnout in care fields. The authors suggest that building greater awareness of the social dimensions of burnout may lead to better occupational prevention strategies at the organizational, interpersonal, collegial or team, and individual levels of practicing care work. Such support is essential for managing viable and longer-term careers in care work fields.
Burnout in Human Services: Collaboration as a Prevention Strategy
Culp Center Ballroom
The phenomenon of burnout in child welfare, human services, and similar forms of care work has traditionally been viewed from predominantly psychological and organizational perspectives. Such perspectives tend to focus on the cluster of symptoms practitioners experience and implications for occupational impairment. A clinical sociology perspective adds to these views by considering the scope of social settings and cultural work practices that produce an environment rife with ecological stressors that, among other negative impacts, produce factors that influence the prevalence of burnout in care fields. The authors suggest that building greater awareness of the social dimensions of burnout may lead to better occupational prevention strategies at the organizational, interpersonal, collegial or team, and individual levels of practicing care work. Such support is essential for managing viable and longer-term careers in care work fields.