Individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed in community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases

At the theoretical and empirical levels, article reveals individual factors that cause professional burnout syndrome in social workers, employed community rehabilitation centre for addictive diseases. Addiction is considered a disease has aspects of biological, psychological, social, spiritual nature. Professional can be understood from different points view total comprise general concept consist following aspects: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, decrease self-realization. Research object centres The aim to reveal Tasks: 1) provide assumptions about syndrome; 2) based on experiences workers methods are academic literature analysis, document qualitative research. In study, semi-structured interviews, quality (content) summarizing method were used.Empirical research revealed development diseases, related to: employees’ feelings inferiority imposition excessive requirements themselves (timidity, self-devaluation; feeling guilt; lack self-evaluation skills oneself); personal qualities (too much empathy, attachment clients or doubts meaning work); environment (having nobody talk problems, inability change environment, prolonged stress, narrowing interests outside work, forced abandonment activities previously preventively helped combat syndrome). Individual (collapse hopes help client responsibility worker client’s life). Participants became “inaccessible” family members, unable distance work stress (worries obsessive thoughts hinder dissociation relax, use free time activities); felt competencies.