Physical and psychological burden of psychotherapists in training
- The demanding working and training conditions of psychotherapists in training (PiA) are discussed more and more frequently from social and research perspectives. The complementary focus on job and training pressure and its consequences have received little attention so far.
The nationwide survey (N = 464) contains information on essential person-related and training-related risk factors and resources. Moreover, the study provides comparisons concerning different professional categories with high psychological and social demands as well as with the training conditions of psychotherapists in 2009.
The study shows the difficulties and demanding situation of financing the training. The PiAs showed significantly higher stress levels than other groups of persons and comparably low resilience combined with a high working engagement. Only a few PiAs had a healthy behavioral and perceptional work pattern.
The results underline the necessity for an examination of the training and working conditions of PiAs. Accordingly, options forThe demanding working and training conditions of psychotherapists in training (PiA) are discussed more and more frequently from social and research perspectives. The complementary focus on job and training pressure and its consequences have received little attention so far.
The nationwide survey (N = 464) contains information on essential person-related and training-related risk factors and resources. Moreover, the study provides comparisons concerning different professional categories with high psychological and social demands as well as with the training conditions of psychotherapists in 2009.
The study shows the difficulties and demanding situation of financing the training. The PiAs showed significantly higher stress levels than other groups of persons and comparably low resilience combined with a high working engagement. Only a few PiAs had a healthy behavioral and perceptional work pattern.
The results underline the necessity for an examination of the training and working conditions of PiAs. Accordingly, options for interventions are presented.…
| Author details: | Mareike Carina Engel, Ingo Jacobs, Thomas Fydrich, Matthias Ziegler |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-015-0055-2 |
| ISSN: | 0935-6185 |
| ISSN: | 1432-2080 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Psychotherapeut |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | Costs; Questionnaires; Stress; Training conditions; Workload |
| Volume: | 60 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Number of pages: | 10 |
| First page: | 536 |
| Last Page: | 545 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
