Professional Nursing Burnout and Irrational Thinking

Balevre, Park; Cassells, Julie; Buzaianu, Elena M.

doi:10.1097/nnd.0b013e318240a65a

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“…Only one study has directly examined the relationship between irrational beliefs and mental health outcomes, which revealed that irrational beliefs predicted increases in physical and emotional exhaustion (a dimension of burnout) in Gaelic football athletes over an 8-week period ( Turner and Moore, 2015 ). This finding is inline with past research outside of sport linking irrational beliefs to greater burnout (e.g., Balevre et al, 2012 ). But clearly more longitudinal, large-scale, studies are required in order to investigate fully the relationships between irrational beliefs and dysfunctional responses, especially focusing on athletes.…”

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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Irrational and Rational Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Athletes

2016

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In this article Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is proposed as a potentially important framework for the understanding and promotion of mental health in athletes. Cognitive-behavioral approaches predominate in the provision of sport psychology, and often form the backbone of psychological skills training for performance enhancement and maintenance. But far from being solely performance-focused, the cognitive-behavioral approach to sport psychology can restore, promote, and maintain mental health. This review article presents REBT (Ellis, 1957), the original cognitive behavioral therapy, as a valuable approach to addressing mental health issues in sport. REBT holds that it is not events that directly cause emotions and behaviors. Rather, it is one’s beliefs about the events that lead to emotional and behavioral reactivity. Further, REBT distinguishes between rational and irrational beliefs, and suggests that in response to failure, maltreatment, and misfortune, people can react with either healthy or unhealthy emotional and behavioral responses. The extant research indicates that irrational beliefs lead to unhealthy negative emotions, a range of pathological conditions, and a host of maladaptive behaviors that undermine mental health. Therefore, REBT proposes a process for the reduction of irrational beliefs and the promotion of rational beliefs. The use of REBT in sport is seldom reported in literature, but research is growing. This review article proposes three important areas of investigation that will aid the understanding of irrational beliefs and the application of REBT within sport. These areas are: (1) the influence of irrational beliefs and REBT on the mental health of athletes, (2) the influence of irrational beliefs and REBT on athletic performance, (3) the origins and development of irrational beliefs in athletes. Each area is discussed in turn, offering a critical and progressive review of the literature as well as highlighting research deficits, and recommendations to address each of the three areas of investigation.

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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Irrational and Rational Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Athletes

2016

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“…[6][7][8] Crucially, irrational beliefs can build maladaptive cognitive patterns which lead to professional burnout. 9,10 Limitations of the current study, include a small sample size and lack of demographic data which meant relationships between various factors could not be investigated. However, the REAEI program appears to produce positive results and certainly warrants further investigation in a larger study.…”

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“…4 Burnout symptoms are considered to result primarily from irrational beliefs, [6][7] Indeed, there is evidence to show that irrational beliefs significantly predict burnout behaviors, 6 and maladaptive thinking patterns correlate with burnout behaviors. [8][9][10] Therefore, rational-emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) programmes may be of use in helping to reduce burnout symptoms. 6 One study found that a rational-emotive health education intervention (REHEI) based on REBT principles was significantly effective in stress management and irrational beliefs among college teachers.…”

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Effect of rational-emotive adult education intervention on burnout symptoms among primary school teachers in Southeast Nigeria

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Objective: To determine the effect of a rational-emotive adult education intervention (REAEI) on burnout symptoms among primary school teachers in Southeast Nigeria. Methods: Primary school teachers with burnout symptoms were randomised to treatment or control condition. Treatment was a 16-week REAEI programme delivered in 32 group therapeutic sessions. The Teachers' Burnout Inventory (TBI) score was recorded before and after therapy and at a three-month follow-up. Results: Overall, 27% (86/320) of the sample of primary school teachers had burnout symptoms. TBI scores were statistically significantly lower in the treatment group compared with the control group both after therapy and at the three-month follow up. Conclusion: In this sample of primary school teachers, burnout symptoms were alleviated by use of a REAEI program.

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“…[62][63][64][65] These consequences can lead to inadequate staffing, which in turn, is linked to unfavorable patient outcomes such as hospital-acquired infections. 66 Lingering effects of providers' moral distress can lead to moral desensitization, 50 harmful workplace climates, 23 and suffering of patients and their families. 26 The health system itself is financially affected when moral distress drives nurses and other providers to decrease their work engagement and productivity.…”

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Screening Situations for Risk of Ethical Conflicts: A Pilot Study

Pavlish¹,

Hellyer²,

Brown-Saltzman³

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American Journal of Critical Care

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A closed-book, multiple-choice examination following this article tests your under standing of the following objectives:1. Describe the impact of ethical conflict in the intensive care unit (ICU) for patients, families, and health care workers. 2. Describe risk factors and early warning signs of potential ethical conflicts with ICU patients. 3. Explain key results of ethical risk factor screening for critical care nurses. Results Older patients with multiple comorbid conditions and aggressive treatments were frequently assessed to be at risk for ethical conflicts. Nurses who witnessed patients' suffering and deterioration were likely to initiate the screening process. The most prominent family risk factors included unrealistic expectations and adamancy about treatment. The most prominent early indicators were signs of patients' suffering, unrealistic expectations, and providers' own moral distress. High-risk situations averaged a greater number of risk factors and early indicators than did medium-and low-risk situations. Certain risk factors featured prominently in high-risk situations. Conclusions A phenomenon of shared suffering emerged from the study and signifies the importance of relational strategies such as routine family conferences and ethics consultation.

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Professional Nursing Burnout and Irrational Thinking

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Irrational and Rational Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Athletes

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Irrational and Rational Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Athletes

Effect of rational-emotive adult education intervention on burnout symptoms among primary school teachers in Southeast Nigeria

Screening Situations for Risk of Ethical Conflicts: A Pilot Study

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