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Who takes care of the caretaker?

Who takes care of the caretaker?. Burnout prevention for the helping professionals Dr. Yaron Ziv, MSW, Psy.D Tel-Aviv University Maof-center for human development. Burnout and stress at work - difficulty and challenge. No person is immune against stress No person is immune against burnout

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Who takes care of the caretaker?

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  1. Who takes care of thecaretaker? Burnout prevention for the helping professionals Dr. Yaron Ziv, MSW, Psy.D Tel-Aviv University Maof-center for human development

  2. Burnout and stress at work - difficulty and challenge • No person is immune against stress • No person is immune against burnout • Stress and burnout are normative situations for the modern working people

  3. Burnout and stress at work - difficulty and challenge • Our task is: • Identify • Take responsibility • Take action The ratio of burnout among thetherapeutic profession, is one of the highest on the scale, 6th position out of 140 professions.

  4. What is stress? • Situation perceived as a threat (Selie,1961) • Situation in which a gap between perceived self-expectation and perceived environment expectation occurs (Ziv,1999)

  5. What is stress? • Situation in which a gap between perceived demands and existing resources occurs (Folkman &Lazarus, 1984) • Situation in which negative energy is invested at presence( now) in regard of perceived thoughts about the future (Ziv,2004)

  6. What is stress? • Perception is the key word in regard to stress. • “stressful situation” doesn’t exist • What is perceived as stress to one will not be perceived as stress to another • Stress is not good or bad , what counts is the level of stress

  7. Negative ways to cope with stress • Drugs • Alcohol • Sleep • Avoidance • Procrastination • Eating • Anger

  8. Positive ways to cope with stress • Sport • Good Nutrition • Meditation, Relaxation, Yoga, • Sharing and encountering with friends • Good time management • Assertiveness • Positive thinking

  9. What is Burnout? • Burnout is an accumulated process of physical and mental fatigue as a result of accumulated situations of frustrations that have not been resolved (Maslach,1998)

  10. Physical symptoms of Burnout • Somatic complains about fatigue, dizziness, headaches, tension • Decline of the Immune system functioning • High exposure to heart and cancer diseases.

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