Polyakova, O. B. Early Diagnostics of Prerequisites for Emotional Exhaustion of Social Workers as the Factor of their Effective Professional Training

Abstract: The author of the article has extended the definition ‘emotional exhaustion’ as an element of professional deformation of both students and specialists working in the sphere of psychology and teaching. The author described the psychological prerequisites for emotional exhaustion which can be endured by future teachers and psychologists as well as working specialists. These prerequisites include: below average emotional and/or physical exhaustion, early stages of tension and resistance, formation of specific symptoms when the specialist experiences a psychological trauma, anxiety and depression, inadequate emotional reaction, reduction of professional duties, emotional deficit and emotional distance. It is specifically underlined that there is a need to take into account the following facts when training specialists and applying preventive measures: absence of a stage of emotional exhaustion and self discontent, personal distance and psychosomatic and vegetative disorders.

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