TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic burnout in psychology and health-allied sciences
T2 - the BENDiT-EU program for students and staff in higher education
AU - Kourea, Lefki
AU - Papanastasiou, Elena C.
AU - Diaconescu, Liliana Veronica
AU - Popa-Velea, Ovidiu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Kourea, Papanastasiou, Diaconescu and Popa-Velea.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Studying at university involves demanding academic and clinical training requirements for students from Psychology and other health-allied fields, potentially having severe physical and mental health implications. Existing training programs for addressing burnout have focused thus far on specific areas (e.g., stress management, physical exercise, mindfulness meditation, etc.) with promising outcomes. However, no comprehensive programs have been developed to train students and staff in the early identification of burnout signs and characteristics as well as in self-assessing personal needs and habits (i.e., primary prevention), or in identifying community resources and evidence-based strategies to overcome burnout (i.e., secondary prevention). This paper describes the content development, refinement, and piloting process of the BENDiT-EU program as part of a European collaborative to address academic burnout for health-allied students. Piloting results showed that participants viewed the program positively and provided helpful suggestions for content improvement and training delivery. Future research directions should target experimental investigations of the program’s effectiveness and the longitudinal interaction of burnout with other variables (e.g., resilience).
AB - Studying at university involves demanding academic and clinical training requirements for students from Psychology and other health-allied fields, potentially having severe physical and mental health implications. Existing training programs for addressing burnout have focused thus far on specific areas (e.g., stress management, physical exercise, mindfulness meditation, etc.) with promising outcomes. However, no comprehensive programs have been developed to train students and staff in the early identification of burnout signs and characteristics as well as in self-assessing personal needs and habits (i.e., primary prevention), or in identifying community resources and evidence-based strategies to overcome burnout (i.e., secondary prevention). This paper describes the content development, refinement, and piloting process of the BENDiT-EU program as part of a European collaborative to address academic burnout for health-allied students. Piloting results showed that participants viewed the program positively and provided helpful suggestions for content improvement and training delivery. Future research directions should target experimental investigations of the program’s effectiveness and the longitudinal interaction of burnout with other variables (e.g., resilience).
KW - anxiety
KW - curriculum training
KW - intervention
KW - mental health
KW - prevention
KW - stress
KW - university students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175354983&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1239001
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1239001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85175354983
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 14
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 1239001
ER -