Burnout in occupational therapists in Poland. Dispositional optimism as....

[Andrzej]

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Hello everyone,

For those interested in psychological issues of occupational therapy, I am attaching a paper from a monography published in 2012 in Poland, that deals with burnout in occupational therapists in Poland.

Supernat K., Sagalara A. "Burnout in occupational therapists in Poland. Dispositional optimism as a predictor". Occupational Therapy - the International Perspective. Monografie, AWF Krakow. 2012; 225 - 235.

If you need further details, please send me a private message.

-Andrzej

 

[alansda]

It's great to see Poland represented in OT research, please continue to expand this profession over there.

You mentioned in the paper that OT is not well defined in Poland and so you decided to include many other professions as part of the therapist sample. What can AOTA or other established OT associations do to reach out to places like Poland to help define what OT is to the people there?

As to the topic of the paper, I wonder if the diversity of settings has something to do with burnout and to what degree. For example, compare a high optimism person working in one setting for 20 years vs. a low optimism person working in many different settings for 20 years.

 

[Andrzej]

Thank you for your appeciation 🙂 OT in Poland is still being developed right now!

Yes, indeed, the fact that OT has not yet been properly defined in Poland (with regard to "Wester standards") is true.

At the time when we were conducting the research, there were (and still are) many various professionals employed in OT centers. That explaines such a diversity among them.

One important point is, that Polish universities have already started introducing OT as a separate faculty, so maybe in the nearest future we will have serious, well qualified OT professionals.

The problem you have mentioned, namely diversity of settings, may play an important role in the development of burnout. However, it was beyond the scope of our work.

I will discuss it with coauthor (who is a psychologists) and will find out what's her opinion about that.

Thank you for your interest.