Want to Reduce Stress and Burnout in Behavioral Health Workers? How to Get There Checklist [2.10.2.f]
These strategies, suggested by The Australian National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction’s (NCETA) publication
Stress and Burnout: A Prevention Handbook for the Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce[1], provides insight on what behavioral health organizations and individuals can do to reduce stress and burnout. For each strategy the WDRC Recruitment and Retention Toolkit provides resources that can advance success.
Oranizational-Level Suggestions to Reduce Stress and Burnout
Conducting a stress audit:
Use Realistic Job Previews (RJPs) and employee orientation programs:
Support for professional development:
Support for career development:
[Watch for new resources on career development to be available on this site soon.]
Flexible working conditions:
Management training:
Job redesign:
Recognition and rewards:
Mentoring and clinical supervision programs:
Suggestions for Individuals to Reduce Stress and Burnout
Working smarter, not harder:
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle:
Maintaining realistic expectations and beliefs:
Seeking out a mentor or clinical supervisor:
Check stress and burnout levels:
Repair stress, burnout and compassion fatigue:
[1] Skinner, N. & Roche, A.M. (2005). Stress and Burnout: A Prevention Handbook for the Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce. National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
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