Resilience, Mindfulness, and Distress in Human Service Professionals

This report analyzes a research article exploring resilience and mindfulness as preventative factors for psychological distress, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress among human service professionals. The report examines the authorship, research aims and objectives, research design and ...Read More

Exploring resilience and
mindfulness as preventative
factors for psychological
distress burnout and secondary
traumatic stress among human
service professionals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main body .......................................................................................................................................1
PART A...........................................................................................................................................1
Authorship: ............................................................................................................................1
Objective: ..............................................................................................................................3
Research design:.....................................................................................................................4
Research methods: .................................................................................................................4
Results: ..................................................................................................................................5
PART B............................................................................................................................................5
Barrier’s for the application of evidence in practice..............................................................5
How closely the research studies provided align with the PICO question/elements.............6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

TITLE: Harker, R., Pidgeon, A. M., Klaassen, F., & King, S. (2016, p.631-637.). Exploring
resilience and mindfulness as preventative factors for psychological distress burnout and
secondary traumatic stress among human service professionals. Work.
INTRODUCTION
Analysis of research articles is important activity implies to identification of evidence on
the basis of research has been conducted by scholar. It is accomplished for analysing the aims
and objectives of scholar related to the topic behind this research. Various research methods are
used by authors to accomplish their study for arriving at adequate and correct results. Selected
article is based on exploring resilience and mindfulness as preventative factors for psychological
distress burnout and secondary traumatic stress among the human services professionals.
PART A
Authorship
a. Knowledge, expertise of Author
Author has prepared research on exploring resilience and mindfulness as preventive
factors for psychological distress burnout and secondary traumatic stress among human service
professional. Individual has huge knowledge about this field. As person have worked in the field
of medical thus, individual is well aware with the psychological distress. Mr. Rachel Harker is
the clinical psychologist. She has completed her Master of psychology from Bond university.
Recently she is in the clinical position in Australian health practitioner regulation agency. She
has worked in the same field that is why she has in-depth understanding about the same area.
b. Conflict of interest
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There are conflict of interest in the situation of finding because it is found that there are
high level of resilience is the predictor of low level psychological disstress. There is not
significant factor of low level or high level.
 Harker & et.al (2016, p.631-637.) have argued that Human service are wholly concerned
with the intervention and the empowerment of vulnerable social populations. Dr, Harker
R. was the first author of this article who is the department head of Psychology in Bond
university, Robina, Australia. Another two authors are professionals in Mercy family
services in Australia named Pidgeon and Klandasan. Author has its expertise in the
subject of human psychology and experience of carrying out various research based on
this topic. Author have their expertise in the field of Psychology and also in medical
science as they accomplished various research project Ekstam, L. & et.al., (2015).
 Authors has argued that she has better understanding about the research and has
experience in the field of psychological. She is also a therapists working with at risk
young people and mothers of children's who have experienced. Dr Pidgeon has developed
and is currently evaluating the mindfulness based program and App called MARST
(Mindful Awareness Resilience Skills Training) with these populations.
Research Aim
a. Aim
` The aim of the study is to improve understanding on relationship between resilience,
mindfulness, burnout, secondary traumatic stress and psychological stress among human service
professionals.
Hypotheses
Age is significant predictor of resilience
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b. Justification
Authors have justified the need for the study by involving all relevant factors into the
study. Researcher have sub divided aim and have in-depth detail about each element. Age,
gender both factors have been involved in order to find out psychological stress and its impact on
human service professionals
Objective:
The main objectives of this present research is to improve understand about the relationship
between the resilience, mindfulness, burnout, secondary traumatic stress and the physiological
distress.
◦ To analyse concept of resilience, mindfulness, burnout, secondary traumatic stress
◦ To analyse relationship between resilience, mindfulness, burnout, secondary
traumatic stress in context of health science student.
◦ To analyse the impact resilience, mindfulness, burnout, secondary traumatic stress on
the mindset of health science student.
◦ To understand higher level of resilience prevent burnout in the health science student.
Research design
a. Research methods
Scholar has chosen questionnaire method in order to collect information about the topic.
Correlation, mean, mode, median, standard deviation has been calculated by using statistical
analysis method. Furthermore, exploratory research design has been applied in this research.
Purposive sampling method has been used in this study. The present study is based on the
reviews provided by the sample size of 133 human service professionals which is also working
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in the psychology, social work, counselling, youth and increase the care services among the
users.
b. Justification for the methods
Use of quantitative research methods are suitable for the research because by this way
authentic results have been generated by the researcher. Purposive sampling technique have
supported the scholar in involving right people those who can solve the purpose of this study.
Deductive approach has helped in testing hypotheses and actual finding variable that is affects
distress and other relevant factors (Harker & et.al., (2016, p.631-637).
c. Participants
Researcher has involved 133 human service professionals those who are working in the
field of psychological, social work etc. Author has involved respondants those who are between
age of 20 to 64 year
From the effective study, it has been analysed that research design is analysed as the
overall blue print of study which that provide major assistance in creation of basis for the
accomplishment of entire approach of the research (Noar & et.al., (2015). Mixed methodology of
research design was effective in quantitative research method. In contrast to this, Exploratory
research can be also be valuable means for finding out what is happening to seek new insights, to
ask questions, to assess new insights of study.
Findings
The outcomes of the researched has provided understanding that higher level of
resilience is the important forecaster at the low level of psychological distress, secondary
traumatic stress and burn out in the human service professionals (Cottrell, (2017). Further,
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mindfulness at the higher level is also important predictor of the lower levels of the
Psychological distress and the burnout (Parker, (2014).
PART B
Barrier’s for the application of evidence in practice
There are various have been analysed that occurs while application of evidence in
practice in nursing and healthcare service by professionals. Some of them are as follows:
 Size and complexity of research: The size and complexity of research topic was the major
barrier which provided influence on the collection of information about the author's aims
behind selection of this topic (Schaffer, Sandau & Diedrick (2013,pp.1197-1209.).
 Poor access to evidence and guidelines: Due to high complexity of research and lack of
proper supports from respondents in data collection was the reason behind these barriers.
Lack of effectiveness of educational and quality has created problems in application of
research evidence in to clinical practice (Cottrell, (2017).
 Low patients' adherence to treatments: It is also barriers which is faced by professionals
while application of evidence in to practice. This can be removed by developing more
effective strategies to encourage the patients to follow the health care advice.
CONCLUSION
In this report, it has been concluded that analysis of research which are conducted by
research scholar is the most complex task but it provides an understanding about various
important aspects that need to be taken in to consideration while conducting research. The
outcomes of the researched has provided understanding that higher level of resilience is the
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important forecaster at the low level of psychological distress, secondary traumatic stress and
burn out in the human service professionals.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Harker, R., Pidgeon, A. M., Klaassen, F., & King, S. (2016, p.631-637.). Exploring resilience
and mindfulness as preventative factors for psychological distress burnout and secondary
traumatic stress among human service professionals. Work.
Cottrell, S., (2017). Critical thinking skills. Macmillan Education.
Parker, I., (2014). Discourse dynamics (psychology revivals): Critical analysis for social and
individual psychology. Routledge.
Schaffer, M.A., Sandau, K.E. & Diedrick, L., (2013,pp.1197-1209.). Evidence‐based practice
models for organizational change: overview and practical applications. Journal of Advanced
Nursing,
Noar, S. M., Myrick, J. G., Zeitany, A., Kelley, D., Morales-Pico, B., & Thomas, N. E. (2015,
164-174.). Testing a social cognitive theory-based model of indoor tanning: Implications for skin
cancer prevention messages. Health communication,
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