Describe the three characteristics of burnout among helping professionals.
What will be an ideal response?
Emotional exhaustion: Occurs as individuals become less energetic about the activities that once provided a source of enthusiasm and self-efficacy related to professional activities
Depersonalization: Occurs as a response to emotional exhaustion, as individuals attempt to create emotional and psychological distance between themselves and aspects of their job associated with emotional strain
Diminished sense of personal accomplishment: Results as a function of the exhaustion and personalization and represents a state in which individuals begin to demonstrate deficits in their overall vocational effectiveness
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
MST interventions target an adolescent's:
a. school and work role functioning. b. entire system, including family, friends, school, and neighborhood. c. parents' ability to manage their behavior. d. extended family relations.
Clients who are most strongly motivated to work hard in therapy are more likely to experience
a. significantly greater dissatisfaction in therapy due to the length of time before therapeutic change occurs b. more success in therapy than clients who are not motivated to work hard c. no more or less success in therapy than clients who are not motivated to work hard d. significantly greater problems terminating therapy when termination is clinically warranted
A score of five points on the DAST would
a. be below the cut-off score necessary to suggest a substance use disorder on this instrument. b. be sufficiently high to suggest a substance use disorder on this instrument. c. suggest substance abuse, but not substance dependence. d. reflect extreme denial on this instrument since a score of five points has been engineered to be a lie detection score suggestive of attempts at deception.