Professional Burnout and Reflection of Professionals Helping Professions

Тhis paper attempts to address the relationship of reflection, supervision, and professional burnout of psychologists and psychotherapists. The sample of the pilot study included 38 people, including 27 women and 11 men. Тhe average age of the subjects was 36.6 years for women (range: 24—55) and 39.1 years for men (range: 29—57). The following methods were used: Burnout Inventory (Maslach, Jackson, 1981; Vodop’yanova, Starchenkova, 2005); Differential Diagnostics of Reflexivity (Leont’ev, Lapteva, Osin, Salikhova, 2009); color metaphor technique (Solomin, 1996); a professional and demographic questionnaire developed by the authors. All respondents are engaged in the field of practical psychology. The results of the study revealed a low level of professional burnout and the prevalence of systemic reflection among specialists systematically attending supervision. For respondents not using the help of a supervisor, symptoms of professional burnout and the prevalence of introspection were found.

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