Mental health professionals' experiences and feelings toward work.

• Main Author: Briones, Zachele Marie M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Mental health personnel—Psychology; Mental health personnel—Job stress; Work—Psychological aspects; Burn out (Psychology); Secondary traumatic stress
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5839
• Institution: De La Salle University

This qualitative study described the experiences of and feelings toward work of mental health professionals engaged in providing interventions to survivors of trauma. The study posits that professionals exposed to trauma work manifest occupational hazards, associated with burnout or vicarious trauma...