Mental health professionals are prone to constant stress and trauma that may contribute to compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Resilience is one of the tools used to overcome these difficulties, reducing the adverse impacts of job-related strains. This cross-sectional study surveyed 134 (N = 134) mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, therapists, and psychiatric nurses) using the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC; α = 0.90) and Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL-5; α = 0.94), with data collected online and offline following ethical approval and informed consent. Using Pearson’s correlation and simple linear regression on normally distributed data, resilience was found to be strongly tied to higher compassion satisfaction (r = 0.563, p < .001) and lower burnout (r = −0.603, p < .001), with a moderate negative link with secondary traumatic stress (r = −0.308, p < .001). These results highlight resilience as a key shield against burnout, informing the proposed Mental Health Professionals–Resilience Model to enhance professional quality of life through internal (e.g., coping, self-care) and external (e.g., peer support, workload management) interventions, informed by existing data on resilience.
Agrawal et al. (Tue,) studied this question.