group proposal
Group Leadership Proposal
Group Leader: Ms.X
Purpose of the Group
Burnout decreases productivity and takes away your energy. It’s a key concern in the field of counseling. The results of burnout can lead you to feeling helpless, hopeless and resentful. As counselors we have to effectively take care of ourselves in order to adequately help our clients.
The purpose of this group is to identify, and address the issue of burn-out with several social workers with a high case load. Additionally, suggest self-care exercise to explore a balance in your life. These social workers have worked between 6 months up to at least two years. The social workers manage a caseload of 35 to 60 veterans per social worker. Veterans on their caseloads were homeless, but now housed. In addition to their homelessness, they have difficulty with maintaining sobriety, psychological concerns, mental and physical issues, just to name a few. The social worker role is to help veterans to maintain housing and work towards stabilization.
Objectives
Upon completion of this group, participants will be able to…
(a) Identify and address the issue of burn-out.
(b) Recognize the effects of burnout personally and professionally.
(c) Identify self-awareness approaches that works
(d) Identify self-care plan and resources
Proposed Activity
Group leader will provide worksheet and pens. The participants will be given a Burnout Checklist sheet with 22 statements listed. They will need to check the box next to the statement that is currently true for them. The leader will provide 2-3 minutes for participants to check off statements. Once completed the participants will discuss out of the 23 statements how many checked 23, checked 22, etc.… (closes to 23 initiate high burn-out). The last 7-8 minutes the participants will discuss with each other how the exercise identified current areas of burnout.
Process Questions
(1) How did the activity help you identify burnout?
(2) What’s the difference between stress and burnout?
(3) Are you on the rode to burnout? If so why, what does it look like?
(4) How do I deal with burnout?