Stres i wypalenie zawodowe pracowników socjalnych

The challenges faced by social workers carrying out social work in Poland are mainly aimed at making a change in clients, adapting them to their roles, helping them to find their competences and develop their skills. Working with clients is often a source of stress for social workers and thus may lead to experiencing professional burnout syndrome. As the characteristics of the phenomenon show, professional burnout can affect any social worker, but an important factor is at what stage we start to counteract its effects. The main factors in counteracting professional burnout are interventions to minimise stressors in the workplace and to improve workers’ skills in coping with stress in difficult situations. One such factor is subjecting social work to regular super-vision. Reducing worker stress and counteracting professional burnout are indicated as one of the main benefits for the use of supervision in social work.