Emotional resilience: the key to preventing burnout
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Resilience, Metacognition, Guilt, Moral hypochondriaAbstract
Healthcare professionals must uphold respect, empathy, and solidarity, but fatigue and lack of recognition can compromise these qualities. Emotional resilience is crucial for preventing burnout and maintaining ethical patient care, avoiding inappropriate reactions.
This article highlights four key strategies to develop this resilience:
1. Recognizing and Articulating Concerns: identifying stressors that may be overlooked due to habituation or denial.
2. Assigning Meaning to Effort and Suffering: engaging in reflective practice to contextualize clinical decisions and acknowledge professional vulnerability.
3. Enhancing Emotional Competence: regulating emotions, practicing active listening, and mitigating countertransference.
4. Identifying Ethical Misalignment: using metacognition and self-assessment to maintain professional integrity and core values.
By integrating these practices, clinicians can strengthen adaptive coping mechanisms, enhance emotional well-being, and ensure sustainable, high-quality patient care.
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