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Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts

BACKGROUND: Mental health professionals are often affected by mental health problems and disorders. Yet, the effects of these lived experiences on their causal beliefs and health concepts have not been investigated. The current study investigates how professionals’ lived depressive experiences and t...

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Autores principales: Ponew, Angel, Brieger, Anna, Lust, Christian, Speerforck, Sven, von Peter, Sebastian, Stuetzle, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1114274
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author Ponew, Angel
Brieger, Anna
Lust, Christian
Speerforck, Sven
von Peter, Sebastian
Stuetzle, Stefan
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Brieger, Anna
Lust, Christian
Speerforck, Sven
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Stuetzle, Stefan
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description BACKGROUND: Mental health professionals are often affected by mental health problems and disorders. Yet, the effects of these lived experiences on their causal beliefs and health concepts have not been investigated. The current study investigates how professionals’ lived depressive experiences and their perceived vulnerability to mental illness affect their causal beliefs about mental disorders, their general concept of mental health and their specific concepts of depression and burnout. METHODS: An online survey was conducted with 218 mental health professionals from 18 psychiatric clinic departments in the German federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, investigating their experiences with depression, self-assessed vulnerability, their causal beliefs of mental illness, their general health concept and specific illness concepts of depression and burnout. A path model was calculated to examine the relationships between these variables. Participants with and without lived experience of depression were grouped. RESULTS: Lived experience of depression was indicated by 126 participants. For participants with no experience of depression, perceived vulnerability negatively predicted beliefs in biological causation, which positively predicted higher differentiation between depression and burnout. For participants with previous depression experiences, perceived vulnerability positively predicted beliefs in psychological and social causation. Continuum belief was predicted only in this group by the three variables of causal beliefs. Psychological and social causation was positively associated, while biological causes were negatively associated with continuum beliefs. CONCLUSION: Mental health professionals are not external to the clinical situation. Their lived experiences do matter, shaping their beliefs and concepts and, thus, possibly also their actions toward patients.
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spelling pubmed-99056382023-02-08 Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts Ponew, Angel Brieger, Anna Lust, Christian Speerforck, Sven von Peter, Sebastian Stuetzle, Stefan Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: Mental health professionals are often affected by mental health problems and disorders. Yet, the effects of these lived experiences on their causal beliefs and health concepts have not been investigated. The current study investigates how professionals’ lived depressive experiences and their perceived vulnerability to mental illness affect their causal beliefs about mental disorders, their general concept of mental health and their specific concepts of depression and burnout. METHODS: An online survey was conducted with 218 mental health professionals from 18 psychiatric clinic departments in the German federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, investigating their experiences with depression, self-assessed vulnerability, their causal beliefs of mental illness, their general health concept and specific illness concepts of depression and burnout. A path model was calculated to examine the relationships between these variables. Participants with and without lived experience of depression were grouped. RESULTS: Lived experience of depression was indicated by 126 participants. For participants with no experience of depression, perceived vulnerability negatively predicted beliefs in biological causation, which positively predicted higher differentiation between depression and burnout. For participants with previous depression experiences, perceived vulnerability positively predicted beliefs in psychological and social causation. Continuum belief was predicted only in this group by the three variables of causal beliefs. Psychological and social causation was positively associated, while biological causes were negatively associated with continuum beliefs. CONCLUSION: Mental health professionals are not external to the clinical situation. Their lived experiences do matter, shaping their beliefs and concepts and, thus, possibly also their actions toward patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9905638/ /pubmed/36761862 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1114274 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ponew, Brieger, Lust, Speerforck, von Peter and Stuetzle. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ponew, Angel
Brieger, Anna
Lust, Christian
Speerforck, Sven
von Peter, Sebastian
Stuetzle, Stefan
Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
title Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
title_full Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
title_fullStr Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
title_full_unstemmed Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
title_short Lived experiences matter: The role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
title_sort lived experiences matter: the role of mental health professionals’ psychological crises and vulnerability in shaping their health beliefs and concepts
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1114274
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