Staff burn‐out: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Abstract

Staff burn‐out, a major problem in the delivery of health care to chronic mental patients, is injurious to patients, personnel, and organizations.

Physical dependency and dementia in nhs continuing care wards and contracted nhs beds in voluntary nursing homes

“…If this is not achieved then there is a real risk of job dissatisfaction, poor staff morale and 'burnout'. This has been observed among staff in large mental hospitals, where in the process of closure, more disabled patients have been left behind (Mendal, 1979).…”

Deinstitutionalization: Health Consequences for the Mentally Ill

“…4. The promising of more services and results than the system was prepared to deliver; and personnel problems within the health-care delivery sys tem (23,43,50).…”

Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization: A Sociocultural Analysis

“…The exhaustion or burn-out of staff who may project their own values and ambitions onto unwilling and unable patients, and who have not confronted their own responses to the often extreme dependency needs of their clients is thought to contribute to poor patient outcome (Lamb, 1979b;Mendel, 1979). Patients have also been seen as uninterested in recovery because of the benefits of their sick, crazy roles (Ludwig, 1971), or because they cannot sort out paradoxical and contradictory indications about what is wrong with them and how they can achieve non-patienthood (Erikson, 1957).…”