51: Lived Experience as a Protective Factor for Mental Health Workers

Courtney von Hippel, Ph.D., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss burnout and negative job attitudes, and how lived experience might help provide a buffer in mental health workers. Dr. von Hippel is an Associate Professor of Health and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. How did you get involved in this research? [01:16] A profession with a huge amount of burnout [03:20] What does burnout lead to? [05:45] Private versus public practice [08:07] How does a provider’s lived experience change their experience with the job? [11:03] Who did you look at and what did you ask? [14:57] What did you find? [19:17] Was there anything about your findings that was surprising to you? [20:52] Lived experience versus self-disclosure [22:22] Do different kinds of lived experience translate? [24:03] Next steps for research [25:54] Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at [email protected]