Clinical Trainees' Experience of Burnout and its Relationship to Supervision

<p>Burnout is a phenomenon that has recently gotten a lot of attention in research and media, but there is still a need to understand burnout among clinical trainees. Burnout is characterized by emotional exhaustion, a sense of cynicism, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment. This qualitative study attempted to understand clinical trainees’ experience of burnout, the factors they believed were contributing factors to their burnout, and how supervision impacted this experience. The participants included six trainees who were enrolled in a clinical or counseling doctorate program, have experienced or are currently experiencing burnout, and had at least six months of practica experience. The results of this study were fairly consistent with the literature, though there were characteristics of both how the burnout was experienced and the factors that contributed to burnout that were unique to this study. I also provide ways academic and training programs can ameliorate burnout among trainees, directions for future research, and the limits of this study.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Psy.D. Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Clinical Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Weaver, Amanda

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Torrey Wilson, PhD
• Dr. Penelope Asay, PhD
• Dr. Cristina Antonucci, PsyD

• Burnout
• Clinical Training
• Psychology
• Supervision
• Clinical Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/482

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1524