{"id":176145,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/avoiding-burnout"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:33:55","slug":"avoiding-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/avoiding-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\">Burnout is a major concern for mental health counseling professionals, and it can lead to both professional and personal issues for counselors. It can start with counselors taking on&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\" class=\"psychology\/stress-disorders\">trauma<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\" class=\"psychology\/stress-disorders\">stress<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400;line-height: 1.5\">, and an unrealistic belief that they, alone, are responsible for their clients\u2019 wellness. There are a number of factors in a counselor\u2019s work that might lead to burnout, including secondary stress and vicarious trauma, expanded roles and responsibilities, poor supervision, and lack of the specific tools necessary to perform the job.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Counseling, by its very nature, is stressful work. This stress, if not monitored and addressed, can lead to counselor&nbsp;<a class=\"psychology\/phobias\">impairment<\/a>. The profession acknowledges this by ethically obligating counselors to be mindful not only of their own states of mind, but their colleagues\u2019 health as well.<\/p>\n<p>Give a brief analysis of the importance of counselor self-care. Then, describe two strategies a counselor should use to avoid burnout. If a counselor have experienced burnout, share the experience and explain how you addressed it. If you have not experienced burnout, explain how you would help a colleague who has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnout is a major concern for mental health counseling professionals, and it can lead to both professional and personal issues for counselors. It can start with counselors taking on&nbsp;trauma,&nbsp;stress, and an unrealistic belief that they, alone, are responsible for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/avoiding-burnout\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}