[AIDS, burnout and fear of knowing. Dialectic observations for the benefit of clinical psychology and liaison psychiatry].
A review of the literature regarding burn-out provide a sample of specific variables that describes the phenomenon. This could potentially leads to the emergence of a set of actions intending to facilitate the task of health workers (at least if personnel managers pay it attention). However, it does not preclude the risk of burn-out, neither does it explain its nature. This syndrome seems to be more prevalent in certain medical departments and it occurs to us--through careful listening to health workers and AIDS patients--that, to learn about something that affects health workers, we have to ask patients, supposing they were in the first line. We then realized that knowledge makes distress.
Dachy
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Centre de Référence SIDA, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles.
Roelandts
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D014342:Truth Disclosure
Sida, burn-out et horreur de savoir. Remarques dialectiques pour la psychologie médicale et la psychiatrie de liaison.