A Preliminary Examination of Burnout among Counselor Trainees Treating Clients with Recent Suicidal Ideation and Borderline Traits
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Miller, Grant D.
Iverson, Katherine M.
Kemmelmeier, Markus
MacLane, Chelsea
Pistorello, Jacqueline
Fruzzetti, Alan E.
Watkins, Melanie M.
Pruitt, Larry D.
Oser, Megan
Katrichak, Barrie M.
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2011
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Treating suicidal clients with borderline traits can be conducive to burnout. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) may assuage this burnout in counselors. As part of a DBT treatment outcome study, 6 counselors in training collected their own salivary cortisol samples and completed self-report measures of burnout and well-being for 1 year. Findings indicate a significant interaction for cortisol levels by treatment condition, such that DBT counselors experienced less physiological stress over time relative to a control group of counselors. There were no group differences in self-reported burnout or well-being. DBT may have a salutary effect on trainees' physiological stress levels over time.
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0011-0035