A saúde mental está doente! A Síndrome de Burnout em psicólogos que trabalham em Unidades Básicas de Saúde / The Mental Health is sick! The Burnout Syndrome in psychologists who work in Health Basic Unities

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The Burnout Syndrome consists in a group of symptoms, physical and/or emotional, related with the way each person faces stressful routines/chores in a job environment. This syndrome is more prevalent in those professionals who have a direct contact with other human beings. The objective of this study is to investigate the reason why psychologists of Health Basic Units (Unidades Básicas de Saúde) of a certain city of the state of São Paulo, Brasil, were getting sick. Furthermore, it seeks to verify if the participants present the Burnout Syndrome, and if so, which factors were involved. A semi structured schedule interview was applied, which was based on a previous questionary, but with the possibility of a deeper comprehension of those questions, as well as the formulations of new questions, based on a clinical model. The participants were seven psychologists who work or had worked in a Health Basic Unit. The interviews were analyzed individually, for a qualitative comprehension of the experience of each one of the participants, and then a thematic analysis of their discourses as a whole was conducted. The discourses showed some major factors involved in the development of the syndrome, such as: a) personal professional experience, perfectionism, sense of impotence to deal with the problems; b) organizational overload of work, lack of autonomy, undervaluation of the psychologist, lack of support (clinical supervision/psychotherapy), patients profile, lack of interdisciplinary work. Suggestions of interventions with psychologists to prevent the Burnout Syndrome were made, as well as a reorganization of discipline curriculum of the Psychology courses and in Health Public Institutions. Furthermore, a series of comments has been listed emphasizing the lack of self care that the psychologist has. At last, it was suggested more in-depth research about the theme.

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stress ocupacional formação do psicólogo saúde pública public health humanization assistance occupational stress health care psychology humanização da assistência psicologia da saúde psychologist education qualitative research pesquisa qualitativa

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