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Burnout in Helping Professions: Preventing, Managing, and Healing Through a Bio-Psycho-Social Approach
The term burnout syndrome was first explored and studied in the 1970s by German-American psychiatrist Herbert Freudenberger. In 1974, he used the term burnout to describe the process of physical and mental exhaustion affecting professionals working in high-stress environments, such as healthcare workers and volunteers. Freudenberger observed that after a period of intense dedication, these…
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Counseling through a Bio-Psycho-Social Lens
Hello and welcome!I’d like to open the blog section by shedding some light on the counseling profession—often described as a “helping profession.” I believe I’ve always been a counselor, in a natural and intuitive way. Drawn to listening, curious about people’s lives, and innately empathetic. I remember, some twenty years ago, sitting in a therapist’s…
