The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers' psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation.
Death Stud
; : 1-14, 2024 Jul 08.
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Little is known about how telephone crisis support workers are impacted by frequent empathic engagement with callers in crisis, including those who are suicidal. This is the only known qualitative study to specifically examine the impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers' psychological wellbeing and functioning. Eighteen telephone crisis support workers participated in semi-structured interviews, providing detailed accounts of the impact of the role on their wellbeing and functioning. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of interview data resulted in four key themes. Results suggest that telephone crisis support workers' motivations, background, personal help-seeking and coping practices are likely to impact their experiences of psychological wellbeing and functioning in relation to empathic engagement with callers in crisis. Telephone crisis services should seek to integrate an understanding of workers' experiences into the provision of training, supervision and support strategies to optimize workers' wellbeing and functioning.
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