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ERIC Number: EJ1295485
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-2164-3989
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Self-Reported Symptoms of Burnout in Novice Professional Counselors: A Content Analysis
Cook, Ryan M.; Fye, Heather J.; Jones, Janelle L.; Baltrinic, Eric R.
Professional Counselor, v11 n1 p31-45 2021
This study explored the self-reported symptoms of burnout in a sample of 246 novice professional counselors. The authors inductively analyzed 1,205 discrete units using content analysis, yielding 12 categories and related subcategories. Many emergent categories aligned with existing conceptualizations of burnout, while other categories offered new insights into how burnout manifested for novice professional counselors. Informed by these findings, the authors implore counseling scholars to consider, in their conceptualization of counselor burnout, a wide range of burnout symptoms, including those that were frequently endorsed symptoms (e.g., negative emotional experience, fatigue and tiredness, unfulfilled in counseling work) as well as less commonly endorsed symptoms (e.g., negative coping strategies, questions of one's career choice, psychological distress). Implications for novice professional counselors and supervisors are offered, including a discussion about counselors' experiences of burnout to ensure they are providing ethical services to their clients.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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