Fedak B. Professional burnout syndrome and its psychotherapeutic correction for Emergency Medical Response personnel

The thesis developed optimization for the psychotherapeutic correction system of the burnout syndrome for the emergency medical response personnel based on an evaluation of its phenomenology and pathopsychological mechanisms of formation. Professional burnout syndrome evaluation was detected among emergency medical response personnel. Research provided in specific psychological areas of emergency medical response and ambulance teams affected by burning syndrome, its phenomenological variants and pathopsychological mechanisms of formation are allocated. Personal related profiles, character accentuation options, emotional and motivational state of emergency medical response staff with burnout syndrome are detected. Social functioning features of emergency medical response personnel in the examined groups are researched and identified. Systematic approach used in this research allowed justifying principles of pathogenetic psychotherapeutic correction for emergency medical response staff with burnout syndrome. Approbation of the proposed correction has proved its high efficiency. Key words: burnout syndrome, clinical and phenomenological structure, pathopsychological particular features of social functioning, psychotherapeutic correction.