Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: the differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors.
Although work-site factors have been shown to be a consistent predictor of burnout, the importance of mindfulness and values-based processes among addiction counselors has been little examined. In this study, we explored how strongly experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and values commitment related to burnout after controlling for well-established work-site factors (job control, coworker support, supervisor support, salary, workload, and tenure). We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 699 addiction counselors working for urban substance abuse treatment providers in six states of the United States. Results corroborated the importance of work-site factors for burnout reduction in this specific population, but we found that mindfulness and values-based processes had a stronger and more consistent relationship with burnout as compared with work-site factors. We conclude that interventions that target experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and values commitment may provide a possible new direction for the reduction of burnout among addiction counselors.
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA. roger.vilardaga@gmail.com
Roger
R
Vilardaga
Jason B
JB
Luoma
Steven C
SC
Hayes
Jacqueline
J
Pistorello
Michael E
ME
Levin
Mikaela J
MJ
Hildebrandt
Barbara
B
Kohlenberg
Nancy A
NA
Roget
Frank
F
Bond
D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition; D003376:Counseling; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012044:Regression Analysis; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D017132:Workplace
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