Date of Award

Spring 5-2009

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

EVMS School of Health Professions

Program/Concentration

Art Therapy

Committee Director

Sarah Deaver

Committee Member

Kathy Hrenko

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to develop an art therapy based burnout prevention program for pediatric healthcare providers who work directly with chronically and/or terminally ill children. This program will run for a period of four months. Eight sessions were designed to implement self-care skills, promote a supportive working environment and professional boundaries, address grief and loss, and process work-related stress and distress in order to reduce burnout and compassion fatigue among pediatric healthcare providers. This program was designed for 5 to 7 healthcare providers who have similar experiences and work duties. This program will run as a peer support group, which, based upon literature, may alleviate the risk of developing and/ or may decrease the level of burnout among the participants. The program will begin with a brief educational seminar in order to raise self-awareness among the participants about burnout. Each session will then have a theme and a related art task to explore the theme. Group discussion will be held in each session as a closure for each session. The Maslach Burnout Inventory will be used to as a pre to post measure of burnout.

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DOI

10.25777/4w3s-0x08

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