Psychological safety, compassion fatigue and burnout among mental health providers in higher education institutions
Jovine Krisell L. Cuevas & Lida C. Landicho
Abstract
Mental health providers play a vital role especially in the educational setting. They deal with the students’ adjustment to new environment, day-to-day experiences and career choices and the needs of the higher education institution they work with. This study used sequential explanatory mixed method which combined quantitative and qualitative method. Results showed that the respondents were experiencing low levels of psychological safety and average levels of compassion fatigue and burnout. Work relationship was the theme that emerged for the respondents’ psychological safety while self-care was the theme that emerged for both compassion fatigue and burnout. Results also suggests that respondents were vulnerable to psychological safety, compassion fatigue and burnout as the results revealed no significant relationship between the profile of the respondents and the three (3) variables. It was also found out that compassion satisfaction is negatively correlated with exhaustion, mental distance and overall burnout. Results also suggests that burnout is positively correlated to exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment and the respondents’ overall burnout. More so, it was found out that secondary traumatic stress is positively correlated with exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment, emotional impairment and overall burnout. An intervention module tailored to the needs of the mental health providers in the province.
Keywords
mental health providers, psychological safety, compassion fatigue,burnout
Author information & Contribution
Jovine Krisell L. Cuevas. Corresponding author. RPm, LPT, CHRA. Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. Commission on Higher Education. Education Supervisor II. Email: jovinekrisellcuevas24@gmail.com
Lida C. Landicho. Research adviser. Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas.
“All authors equally contributed to the conception, design, preparation, data gathering and analysis, and writing of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.”
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This work was not supported by any funding.
Declaration
Notes
This paper is presented in 5th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Industry and Academic Research (ICMIAR)-2024
Acknowledgement
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Cuevas, J.K.L. & Landicho, L.C. (2024). Psychological safety, compassion fatigue and burnout among mental health providers in higher education institutions. The Research Probe, 4(2), 9-17. https://doi.org/10.53378/trp.1224.136
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