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. 2011 Jun;40(4):323-35.
doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2010.11.015. Epub 2011 Jan 22.

Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: the differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors

Roger Vilardaga  1 , Jason B Luoma, Steven C Hayes, Jacqueline Pistorello, Michael E Levin, Mikaela J Hildebrandt, Barbara Kohlenberg, Nancy A Roget, Frank Bond
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Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: the differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors

Roger Vilardaga et al. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2011 Jun.

Abstract

Although work-site factors have been shown to be a consistent predictor of burnout, the importance of mindfulness and values-based processes among addiction counselors has been little examined. In this study, we explored how strongly experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and values commitment related to burnout after controlling for well-established work-site factors (job control, coworker support, supervisor support, salary, workload, and tenure). We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 699 addiction counselors working for urban substance abuse treatment providers in six states of the United States. Results corroborated the importance of work-site factors for burnout reduction in this specific population, but we found that mindfulness and values-based processes had a stronger and more consistent relationship with burnout as compared with work-site factors. We conclude that interventions that target experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and values commitment may provide a possible new direction for the reduction of burnout among addiction counselors.

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