Laser Lessons - Lesson

C2CUBC4-2

Table of Contents

'Staff coping and burnout in intellectual disability services’ by Sile Murphy and Claude Watters.

This brief review discusses the risk of staff burnout amongst frontline workers who provide supports to individuals with intellectual disabilities, particularly amongst staff supporting individuals with challenging behaviour.

Table of Contents

Presentation

Click to read ‘Creating healthy NHS workplaces’ which is a toolkit to support the implementation of the NICE workplace guidance. This kit includes advice on mental wellbeing, obesity, and smoking.
This paper on ‘Emotional resilience in the helping professions and how it can be enhanced’ is by Louise Grant and was published in the Health and Social Care Education Journal. Read from the section ‘What is emotional resilience and how can it be enhanced’ to see some of the strategies to cope with dealing with behaviour that challenges.
This article from The Guardian is called ‘Care workers need support to handle the emotional impact of our jobs’.
The Social Care website has an article on ‘Recognising the signs of carer burnout’.

Think And Challenge