Burnout in Christian Perspective
Mindfulness and Christian spirituality are useful tools in preventing and coping with burnout and compassion fatigue. Christian human services workers who engage in these practices are able to stave off burnout and actually be revitalized in their work because mindfulness and Christian spirituality...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2018]
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 267-276 |
IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality RG Pastoral care |
Further subjects: | B
Daily examen
B Burnout B Compassion fatigue B Jesus prayer B Prayer of consideration B Mindfulness B Christian Spirituality |
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Summary: | Mindfulness and Christian spirituality are useful tools in preventing and coping with burnout and compassion fatigue. Christian human services workers who engage in these practices are able to stave off burnout and actually be revitalized in their work because mindfulness and Christian spirituality are tied to managing loss of personal accomplishment, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization. For Christians, a better way to conceptualize burnout and compassion fatigue is to consider them within the categories of calling, apathy, and indifference. In this way, preventing and coping with burnout becomes a project of spiritual revitalizationreconnecting with the empowering, living spirit of God. The practices of the Jesus Prayer, the daily examen, and the prayer of consideration are useful tools for accomplishing this. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0799-4 |