37920 - Health Worker Psychological Stress

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: M-PSI/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 0635)

Learning outcomes

- stress response;

- burnout syndrome;

-burnout prevention strategies.

Course contents

- The stress response: physiological and behavioural components;

- Helping professions: characteristics of the relationship with the patient;

- Burnout syndrome: symtoms of burnout and protective factors;

- Burnout prevention.

Readings/Bibliography

Santinello M., Negrisolo A. (2009). Quando ogni passione è spenta. La sindrome del burnout nelle professioni sanitarie. Milano: McGraw Hill.

Teaching methods

Power point presentation.

Assessment methods

Written test.

Teaching tools


power point presentation