Burnout Failure

During the mid-70’s Freudenberger introduced the concept of burnout as the emotional exhaustion developed as an outcome of job demands working as a mental health practitioner. Since then the term has been used to describe negative reactions to the stress caused by work related tasks (Thornton, 1992). The repercussions on mental health workers providing direct services to individuals with a history of traumatic experiences are known for several decades; few studies have researched the emotional response from professionals to the direct contact with trauma survivors. The social support field may be highly rewarding or highly stressful to employees depending on the situations their clients disclose; mental health providers are exposed to a higher