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• Investigation of working conditions and risk factors for burnout of social and pedagogical professionals

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  Ágnes Győri

  Éva Perpék

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  The study scrutinizes the relationship between professional working conditions and burnout among Hungarian social and pedagogical professionals. Despite the fact that burnout and occupational well-being have been extensively researched abroad among professional helpers – primarily health care workers –, no quantitative survey has been conducted in Hungary so far in the target group we examined. Another added value of our study is that, besides work and organizational factors revealed by previous burnout studies, it points to the role of client- and fieldwork-related difficulties in the prevalence of burnout symptoms. In our exploratory, crosssectional survey, 261 social and pedagogical specialists participated from Baranya County. Our results suggest that job and task matching problems, and difficulties related to the fieldwork and clients lead to emotional exhaustion of professionals and decreased work efficiency. Deficiencies related to work motivation cause loss of efficiency as well. The results also indicate that out of the three occupational groups involved in the research, professionals working in the field of child protection are most at risk for emotional exhaustion, and the symptom of depersonalization is most relevant to child protection and family and child welfare workers. In addition, we have shown that longer professional experience can be considered a protective factor in burnout symptoms. Our results can make an important contribution to the establishment of individual and organizational level training, support, development, monitoring and evaluation programs and/or policy-level guidelines and interventions that can improve the working conditions of professionals and reduce their risk of emotional, mental and physical strain.

• The role of a children group for the participant, underprivileged children in the family care system 1995–2005

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  Dorottya Sik

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  The aim of this paper is to analyse the methods and effects of a children group, which existed
  from 1995 till 2005. The relevance of this group is, that the beginning of this period preludes the
  constitution of the Hungarian child protection law. After the transmission period the emerging
  social service system provided (or at least tried) supports and services. Those families whose
  children were involved in this child group were dealing with unemployment, poverty, lack of
  proper housing, abuse, deviance and addictions. The significance of this group that the given
  service was easily ductile to the needs of the children and families.