Results
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OPEN DIGITAL TOOL
Mapping the current situation regarding burnout among social professionals by designing an open digital tool for burnout level assessment. More specifically, this result includes several activities: brief research on similar tools, 2 focus groups per country with social professionals for the identification and confirmation of the stressors that follows to be assessed, the development of the assessment tool, platform, and its testing. |
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TRAINING
Building professionals’ capacity to cope with burnout-interactive training. This result foresees to create learning materials that allow delivering a blended learning course to social practitioners, in order to help them develop their coping skills, reduce the stress caused by the working environment and improve the quality of the interaction with beneficiaries. Why? Because at this point the social practitioners do not benefit from proper training before starting to work with vulnerable people, to teach them how to recognize the burnout syndrome from an early stage, and avoid being affected by different dimensions of functionality, including physical, mental, and social life. Therefore, the main purpose of this result is to tackle the needs of the social professionals so they can be more effective in their work, learn new self-care strategies and make use of proactive and emotionally positive self-care strategies, such as reducing workload, receiving supervision, socializing with colleagues. |
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TOOLKIT
A self-care toolkit and resiliency that will guide professionals to cope with job requirements and the symptoms of stress and burnout. This self-care toolkit and resiliency will cover the previous results and piloting results, and it will contain practical information on how to use the assessment tool and training program to better cope with job requirements and the symptoms of stress and burnout. There will be a clear definition of the terms, since burnout apparently is a well-known phenomenon and concept, in most partner countries, but often, burnout characteristics are mixed-up with depression or stress (e.g., Austria, Romania), or considered a strategy for lazy people (e.g., Germany). |
