Psychological aid potential for burnout patients with existential problems in sanatorium conditions

Phenomenological descriptionsof emotional burnout associate it with the action of numerous emotiogenic (both objective and subjective) factors, causing growing frustration,worsening mood and well being, accumulation of fatigue, physiological parameters that characterize the intensity of work, leadingto a professional crisis, depletion and burnout. A particularly serious threat to human health is the mental burnout syndrome withelements of existential (spiritual) crisis - the emergence of depression, feelings of helplessness and worthlessness of existence, low selfesteemof professional competence. Emotional burnout is a process of gradual loss of emotional, cognitive and physical energy, emotionallyexpressed in the symptoms of mental exhaustion, physical fatigue, and reduction of personal job satisfaction. The study samplewas a group of 55 tourists in a sanatorium-resort complex "Belokurikha" (Altai region) of men and women (aged 47.5) of different professions(doctors, teachers, social workers) with a dysfunction of the psycho-emotional sphere, who made up an experimental (35 pers.)and a control (20 pers.) groups. All of them had a psychological examination before and after a course of psycho-correction (3 weeks).With attention to the personal characteristics influence on the development of emotional burnout, student-centred methods were used toreduce occupational stress and treat emotional burnout. Psycho-diagnostic examination confirmed the different levels of emotionalburnout, as well as the presence of elements of the spiritual, existential crisis in tourists. Rates of burnout correlated with personalitytraits - low emotional stability, shyness, suspicion and a tendency to guilt, impulsiveness, and frustration. The effectiveness of preventiveaction in public health, carried out in sanatorium conditions, due to the relevance of content and methods of prevention programstargeted culturally appropriate social groups. One of the first tasks of burnout psychotherapy becomes a quest for answers to existentialquestions, which, apart from their undoubted diagnostic value, can significantly advance the "burntouts" on the way to understandingand resolving their experiences.

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