Etička kauzalnost sindroma profesionalnog izgaranja i slobodne volje u socijalnom radu
Ethical Causality Of The Syndrome Of Professional Burnout And Free Will In Social Work
Author(s): Milan PetričkovićSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: syndrome of professional burnout; free will; social work; ethics; morality
Summary/Abstract: Stressful consequences of extremely complex, effort-consuming and responsible professional activities of social workers who offer the multitude of existential aid and support to people in trouble, affected by evils of toxicomania, juvenile delinquency, family problems, poverty, disability, aging, illness and similar problems which restrain existential development of person are more and more often in theory and practice of social work mentioned as the syndrome of professional burnout. In doing this, this problem of professional saturation, accompanied by loss of working motivation, professional senselessness and hopelessness is in the science of social work approached primarily from the positions of psychology and partly medicine, as an emotional unknown, yielding a simplified clarification deprived of ethical dimensions which in fact represent the very conditio sine qua non of this phenomenon. In that context, this text opens the possibilities of ethical approach to this complex and unexplored subject matter of the science of social work, observing it in causality with free will as a fundamental ethical category, which nurturance and cultivated application the etiology and consequences of professional burnout syndrome of social workers directly depend on.
Journal: Godišnjak FPN
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 395-416
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Serbian