Trening balintowski jako narzędzie rozwoju osobistego i zawodowego pracowników opieki medycznej
Balint training as a tool of personal and professional development of health-care professionals

Author(s): Joanna Pazik, Dorota Pazik, Anna Rudecka
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Balint group; coping strategies; doctor’s professional development; health-care professionals’ personal development; preventing professional burnout
Summary/Abstract: This article presents the assumptions of Balint group training as a tool enabling medical care workers to deal with difficult emotions experienced in the context of practicing aid profession. It presents the difficulties encountered by doctors in their professional work: high expectations they have to meet, emotionally demanding working conditions as well as their constructive and unconstructive strategies to cope with professional stress. The article discusses the principles and course of the Balint group training and its beneficial impact on the understanding of the psychological aspects of the doctor–patient relationship and building occupational resistance of the health workers.

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