"JOGO DOS SENTIMENTOS"

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Acessem o blog pelo link abaixo e confira as fotos e o vídeo com alguns trechos de atividades e dinâmicas propostas no Curso “Trabalhando com Sentimentos” .de Thays Araujo e Vera Miranda.
http://www.jogodossentimentos.com/

Interessados em participar do curso, podem enviar e-mail com nome, e-mail e telefone para ficar na lista de espera.

Fonte: contato@jogodossentimentos.com e http://www.jogodossentimentos.com/

Stress Pós-Traumático

Site: Dr Drauzio Varella

O transtorno do estresse pós-traumático (TEPT) é um distúrbio da ansiedade caracterizado por um conjunto de sinais e sintomas físicos, psíquicos e emocionais em decorrência de o portador ter sido vítima ou testemunha de atos violentos ou de situações traumáticas que, em geral, representaram ameaça à sua vida ou à vida de terceiros. Quando se recorda do fato, ele revive o episódio, como se estivesse ocorrendo naquele momento e com a mesma sensação de dor e sofrimento que o agente estressor provocou. Essa recordação, conhecida como revivescência, desencadeia alterações neurofisiológicas e mentais. Aproximadamente entre 15% e 20% das pessoas que, de alguma forma, estiveram envolvidas em casos de violência urbana, agressão física, abuso sexual, terrorismo, tortura, assalto, sequestro, acidentes, guerra, catástrofes naturais ou provocadas, desenvolvem esse tipo de transtorno. No entanto, a maioria só procura ajuda dois anos depois das primeiras crises.


Recente pesquisa desenvolvida pela UNIFESP (Universidade Federal do Estado de São Paulo) e por outras universidades brasileiras, em parceria com pesquisadores da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, levantou a hipótese de a causa do transtorno estar no desequilíbrio dos níveis de cortisol ou na redução de 8% a 10% do córtex pré-frontal e do hipocampo, áreas localizadas no cérebro.

Sintomas

Os sintomas podem manifestar-se em qualquer faixa de idade e levar meses ou anos para aparecer. Eles costumam ser agrupados em três categorias:

· Reexperiência traumática: pensamentos recorrentes e intrusivos que remetem à lembrança do trauma, flashbacks, pesadelos;

· Esquiva e isolamento social: a pessoa foge de situações, contatos e atividades que possam reavivar as lembranças dolorosas do trauma;

· Hiperexcitabilidade psíquica e psicomotora: taquicardia, sudorese, tonturas, dor de cabeça, distúrbios do sono, dificuldade de concentração, irritabilidade, hipervigilância.

É comum o paciente desenvolver comorbidades associadas ao TEPT.

Diagnóstico

O DSM-IV (Manual de Diagnóstico dos Distúrbios Mentais) e o CID-10 (Classificação Internacional das Doenças) estabeleceram os critérios para o diagnóstico do transtorno do estresse pós-traumático.

O primeiro requisito é identificar o evento traumático (agente estressor), que tenha representado ameaça à vida do portador do distúrbio ou de uma pessoa querida e perante o qual se sentiu impotente para esboçar qualquer reação. Os outros levam em conta os sintomas característicos do TEPT.

Tratamento

São opções de tratamento a terapia cognitivocomportamental e a indicação de medicamentos ansiolíticos, quando necessários.

Recomendações

Preste atenção: o número de diagnósticos de transtorno do estresse pós-traumático tem aumentado nas últimas décadas. Procure assistência médica, se apresentar sintomas que possam ser atribuídos a esse distúrbio da ansiedade;

Lembre-se de que a ocorrência de um agente estressor não significa que a pessoa vai desenvolver TEPT: algumas são mais vulneráveis e predispostas;

Não subestime os sintomas do transtorno em crianças e idosos depois de terem vivenciado situações traumáticas.

FONTE: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cozIumUaoC8J:www.drauziovarella.com.br

Conferência Internacional sobre Assédio Moral e outras Manifestações de Violência no Trabalho: Ética e Dignidade dos Trabalhadores

Data: 12, 13, 14 e 15 de julho de 2010

Publico alvo: Universidades (professores, alunos e técnicos administrativos), Movimentos sociais, Trabalhadores, Pesquisadores e interessados no tema

A Conferência, que está se preparando para sua 1.ª edição, é: um espaço de encontro da Academia, Movimentos Sociais, trabalhadores/as, pesquisadores/as e interessados/as no tema, permitindo maior integração dos saberes e fazeres dos diferentes atores sociais, o que permitirá empreender novas formas de pesquisas que fortaleçam um novo compromisso da Academia com as reais necessidades dos/as trabalhadores/as de forma a fomentar ações de combate e erradicação das diferentes manifestações da violência no local de trabalho.

O evento é organizado pelo Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.


Mais informações: http://www.iesc.ufrj.br/assediomoral/eventos/conf_assediomoral.html

Para mais informações:

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www.protecaoeventos.com.br

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Prevenção: Síndrome de Burnout

What is burnout?

Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest or motivation that led you to take on a certain role in the first place.

Burnout reduces your productivity and saps your energy, leaving you feeling increasingly helpless, hopeless, cynical, and resentful. Eventually, you may feel like you have nothing more to give.

Most of us have days when we feel bored, overloaded, or unappreciated; when the dozen balls we keep in the air aren’t noticed, let alone rewarded; when dragging ourselves out of bed requires the determination of Hercules. If you feel like this most of the time, however, you may be flirting with burnout.

You may be on the road to burnout if:

Every day is a bad day.

Caring about your work or home life seems like a total waste of energy.

You’re exhausted all the time.

The majority of your day is spent on tasks you find either mind-numbingly dull or overwhelming.

You feel like nothing you do makes a difference or is appreciated.

The negative effects of burnout spill over into every area of life – including your home and social life. Burnout can also cause long-term changes to your body that make you vulnerable to illnesses like colds and flu. Because of its many consequences, it’s important to deal with burnout right away.

Dealing with Burnout: The "Three R" Approach

Recognize – Watch for the warning signs of burnout

Reverse – Undo the damage by managing stress and seeking support

Resilience – Build your resilience to stress by taking care of your physical and emotional health

The difference between stress and burnout

Burnout may be the result of unrelenting stress, but it isn’t the same as too much stress. Stress, by and large, involves too much: too many pressures that demand too much of you physically and psychologically. Stressed people can still imagine, though, that if they can just get everything under control, they’ll feel better.

Burnout, on the other hand, is about not enough. Being burned out means feeling empty, devoid of motivation, and beyond caring. People experiencing burnout often don’t see any hope of positive change in their situations. If excessive stress is like drowning in responsibilities, burnout is being all dried up. One other difference between stress and burnout: While you’re usually aware of being under a lot of stress, you don’t always notice burnout when it happens.



Causes of burnout

There are many causes of burnout. In many cases, burnout stems from the job. But anyone who feels overworked and undervalued is at risk for burnout – from the hardworking office worker who hasn’t had a vacation or a raise in two years to the frazzled stay-at-home mom struggling with the heavy responsibility of taking care of three kids, the housework, and her aging father.

But burnout is not caused solely by stressful work or too many responsibilities. Other factors contribute to burnout, including your lifestyle and certain personality traits. What you do in your downtime and how you look at the world can play just as big of a role in causing burnout as work or home demands.

Work-related causes of burnout

Feeling like you have little or no control over your work.

Lack of recognition or rewards for good work.

Unclear or overly demanding job expectations.

Doing work that’s monotonous or unchallenging.

Working in a chaotic or high-pressure environment

Lifestyle causes of burnout

Working too much, without enough time for relaxing and socializing

Being expected to be too many things to too many people.

Taking on too many responsibilities, without enough help from others

Not getting enough sleep

Lack of close, supportive relationships

Personality traits can contribute to burnout

Perfectionistic tendencies; nothing is ever good enough

Pessimistic view of yourself and the world

The need to be in control; reluctance to delegate to others

High-achieving, Type A personality

Caregiver Burnout

Caring for a sick family member or disabled child can cause burnout, especially if the situation is chronic and you have little support. But there is help available!

Read: Preventing Caregiver Burnout: Tips and Resources for Caregivers

Warning signs and symptoms of burnout

Burnout is a gradual process that occurs over an extended period of time. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it can creep up on you if you’re not paying attention to the warning signals. The signs and symptoms of burnout are subtle at first, but they get worse and worse as time goes on.

Think of the early symptoms of burnout as warning signs or red flags that something is wrong that needs to be addressed. If you pay attention to these early warning signs, you can prevent a major breakdown. If you ignore them, you’ll eventually burn out.

Physical signs and symptoms of burnout

Feeling tired and drained most of the time

Lowered immunity, feeling sick a lot

Frequent headaches, back pain, muscle aches

Change in appetite or sleep habits

Emotional signs and symptoms of burnout

Sense of failure and self-doubt

Feeling helpless, trapped, and defeated

Detachment, feeling alone in the world

Loss of motivation

Increasingly cynical and negative outlook

Decreased satisfaction and sense of accomplishment


Behavioral signs and symptoms of burnout

Withdrawing from responsibilities

Isolating yourself from others

Procrastinating, taking longer to get things done

Using food, drugs, or alcohol to cope

Taking out your frustrations on others

Skipping work or coming in late and leaving early

Preventing burnout

If you recognize the warning signs of impending burnout in yourself, remember that it will only get worse if you leave it alone. But if you take steps to get your life back into balance, you can prevent burnout from becoming a full-blown breakdown.



Burnout prevention tips

Start the day with a relaxing ritual. Rather jumping out of bed as soon as you wake up, spend at least fifteen minutes meditating, writing in your journal, doing gentle stretches, or reading something that inspires you.

Adopt healthy eating, exercising, and sleeping habits. When you eat right, engage in regular physical activity, and get plenty of rest, you have the energy and resilience to deal with life’s hassles and demands.

Set boundaries. Don’t overextend yourself. Learn how to say “no” to requests on your time. If you find this difficult, remind yourself that saying “no” allows you to say “yes” to the things that you truly want to do.

Take a daily break from technology. Set a time each day when you completely disconnect. Put away your laptop, turn off your phone, and stop checking email.

Nourish your creative side. Creativity is a powerful antidote to burnout. Try something new, start a fun project, or resume a favorite hobby. Choose activities that have nothing to do with work.

Learn how to manage stress. When you’re on the road to burnout, you may feel helpless. But you have a lot more control over stress than you may think. Learning how to manage stress can help you regain your balance.

To learn more, see Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress

Recovering from burnout

Sometimes it’s too late to prevent burnout – you’re already past the breaking point. If that’s the case, it’s important to take your burnout very seriously. Trying to push through the exhaustion and continue as you have been will only cause further emotional and physical damage.

While the tips for preventing burnout are still helpful at this stage, recovery requires additional steps.



Burnout recovery strategy #1: Slow down

When you’ve reached the end stage of burnout, adjusting your attitude or looking after your health isn’t going to solve the problem. You need to force yourself to slow down or take a break. Cut back whatever commitments and activities you can. Give yourself time to rest, reflect, and heal.



Burnout recovery strategy #2: Get support

When you’re burned out, the natural tendency is to protect what little energy you have left by isolating yourself. But your friends and family are more important than ever during difficult times. Turn to your loved ones for support. Simply sharing your feelings with another person can relieve some of the burden.



Burnout recovery strategy #3: Reevaluate your goals and priorities

Burnout is an undeniable sign that something important in your life is not working. Take time to think about your hopes, goals, and dreams. Are you neglecting something that is truly important to you? Burnout can be an opportunity to rediscover what really makes you happy and to change course accordingly.



Recovering from burnout: Acknowledge your losses

Burnout brings with it many losses, which can often go unrecognized. Unrecognized losses trap a lot of your energy. It takes a tremendous amount of emotional control to keep yourself from feeling the pain of these losses. When you recognize these losses and allow yourself to grieve them, you release that trapped energy and open yourself to healing.



Loss of the idealism or dream with which you entered your career

Loss of the role or identity that originally came with your job

Loss of physical and emotional energy

Loss of friends, fun, and sense of community

Loss of esteem, self-worth, and sense of control and mastery

Loss of joy, meaning and purpose that make work – and life – worthwhile

Source: Keeping the Fire by Ruth Luban



Coping with job burnout

The most effective way to combat job burnout is to quit doing what you’re doing and do something else, whether that means changing jobs or changing careers. But if that isn’t an option for you, there are still things you can do to improve your situation, or at least your state of mind.



Dealing with Job Stress

In order to avoid job burnout, it’s important to reduce and manage stress at work. Start by identifying what factors are stressful. Then you can take steps to deal with the problem, either by changing your work environment or changing the way you deal with the stressor.



Read: Stress at Work: How to Reduce and Manage Job and Workplace Stress



Actively address problems. Take a proactive approach – rather than a passive one – to issues in your workplace. You’ll feel less helpless if you assert yourself and express your needs. If you don’t have the authority or resources to solve the problem, talk to a superior.

Clarify your job description. Ask your boss for an updated description of your job duties and responsibilities. Point out things you’re expected to do that are not part of your job description and gain a little leverage by showing that you’ve been putting in work over and above the parameters of your job.

Ask for new duties. If you’ve been doing the exact same work for a long time, ask to try something new: a different grade level, a different sales territory, a different machine.

Take time off. If burnout seems inevitable, take a complete break from work. Go on vacation, use up your sick days, ask for a temporary leave-of-absence—anything to remove yourself from the situation. Use the time away to recharge your batteries and take perspective.

Fonte: http://helpguide.org/mental/burnout_signs_symptoms.htm

LEIS QUE INSTITUIRAM O DIA DO COMBATE AO STRESS EM VARIOS LOCAIS

DIA ESTADUAL DO COMBATE AO STRESS: 
23/09/2010

No Estado de São Paulo:

Lei nº 13.022, de 21 de maio de 2008

Projeto de lei nº 140, de 2006, da Deputada Delegada Rosmary Corrêa.


Na cidade de São Paulo:

Lei nº 14.158 de 12/05/2006,

Projeto de Lei no. 421/05, do Vereador William Woo


Na cidade de Campinas:

Lei Nº 12.369 , setembro de 2005

Projeto de Lei Do Vereador Aurélio José Cláudio


Na cidade do Recife:

Lei nº. 17. 411/2008 de 5 de janeiro de 2008

Projeto de Lei nº. 119/2007 do Vereador Severino Gabriel.


Na cidade do Rio de Janeiro:

Lei nº 4.775 de 29 de janeiro de 2008

Projeto de Lei no. 4.775, da Vereadora Leila do Flamengo.


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Burnout - Stress Management Techniques de Mind Tools

It may be too late to talk about avoiding burnout. Maybe you've already reached the stage where you are thoroughly disillusioned with your job and where you no longer get anything of emotional value from it.  You may feel let down or betrayed by your organization, and may be "going through the motions" just for the money your job brings in.

While you can deal with exhaustion by taking a good break, rest may not cure this sense of disillusionment.  The passion and commitment that you previously brought to your job may now have completely burned out. Without this, your career may not progress much further.

People deal with this situation in a number of different ways. Some are effective, while others are not so good:

Doing Nothing: Often, one of the worst ways of dealing with burnout is to accept it and do nothing about it.  By remaining in place, you risk becoming bitter and angry as opportunities pass you by. Your organization may come to regard you as “dead wood” and if things do not change, you may be doomed to a gradual or sudden decline. You need to change the situation in some way.

Changing Career: If you have lost all interest in the values that led you into your profession in the first place, then career change may be the best option open to you.

The first downside of this, however, is that you lose the benefit of the precious experience you have already gained within the profession. In entering a new profession, you will be competing equally with people much younger than you, and these people may be willing to accept much lower salaries.

A second downside is that you risk a strong sense of failure in the way you handled things, whereas burnout will only have been a temporary setback if you succeed in turning the situation around. 

Changing Jobs: Job change within the same profession is usually less of an issue than full-scale career change, in that many of your skills and much of your experience will be transferrable. Job change gives you the opportunity to rededicate yourself to your original goals. It also provides a fresh start in a new environment, without the painful reminders that come with staying in the same job.

Changing jobs is an appropriate response where you are disillusioned with your organization more than you are with your career. What you risk, however, is ending up in the same situation again: In changing your job, you must make sure that you understand what lead you to burn out, and ensure that history does not repeat itself. Looking at this positively, you should know what to look for, and have a good idea of how to avoid it!

Using Burnout as a Trigger for Personal Growth: This is probably one the most positive ways that people manage burnout: By using it as a wakeup call to re-evaluate the way they want to live their lives and what they want to achieve. We look at this in more detail below. Nós olhamos para isso com mais detalhes abaixo.

Using Burnout as a Trigger for Personal Growth:

 

Understanding Why You Burned Out

An important first step in managing burnout is to deal with the sense of failure that you may experience following it. A starting point for this is to take a long, rational, dispassionate look at the circumstances leading up to it.

A good way of doing this is by talking to someone who you trust and who is experienced in similar situations in similar organizations (you may find a personal coach helpful here). Avoid people within your own organization, as these people will be tainted with its assumptions and thinking habits: These may contribute to the problem. Take the time to talk the situation through in detail, looking at the circumstances before your involvement, your workload, your actions and the actions of other people, and the situations that evolved.

 

If you are the sort of person who has been committed enough to your work to burn out, it is more than likely that you will have already done everything in your power to resolve the situation.

In reflecting, you will probably find that you made some mistakes, but you will most likely see that these are excusable under the circumstances. You will almost certainly see that a great deal of blame should be attributed externally to the situation, to people around you, or to the people who set up the situation in the first place. In your mind, make sure you place this blame where it fairly belongs.

Lessons that people typically learn through this process are that they are not superhuman, that hard work does not cure all ills, and that major achievements need the commitment and support of other people: In many circumstances, the intense commitment of only one person simply is not enough. They also learn to look at situations with skepticism as they go into them, and to trust their own judgment in spotting and communicating problems early on. 

Learn the lessons of your mistakes so that you do not repeat them.

Moving On… Finding New Direction Moving On ...

Having come to terms with the situation, the next step is to re-evaluate your goals and think about what you want to achieve with your life. We touch on this briefly in our Avoiding Burnout article; however in recovering from burnout, it is worth doing this in detail.

Articles on the Mind Tools main site guide you through the processes of thinking about what you want to achieve with your life and of reviewing and setting life goals .

 

Inform these processes with the increased wisdom and self-understanding you will have gained by understanding why you burned out. Ensure that you give due weight to the relaxation, quality of life issues and social activities that will help to protect you against burnout in the future. Make sure that your goals are set in a balanced manner so that they do not conflict with one-another, and that they are not so challenging that they become a source of excessive stress in their own right.

Next, use SWOT Analysis to more fully understand your current position with respect to these goals. Use it to identify where you need to develop new skills and capabilities, and to understand where you need the help of other people.

 

Make an Action Plan for achieving these goals and start work on it. While part of this Action Plan may include changing job or career, you will be doing this as part of an active plan for the future, not as an escape from one job into another one that is equally bad.

As well as taking these active steps to put burnout behind you, make sure that you adopt the steps towards a healthy lifestyle we looked at in our Defenses Against Stress section.  These will help you to avoid exhaustion and long-term stress in the future. Estes irão ajudá-lo a evitar a exaustão e estresse de longo prazo no futuro.

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Síndrome de Burnout

Matéria retirada do site: http://www.escola24h.com.br/

Síndrome de Burnout -

Um mal que professores contraem na escola!

Muito provavelmente você já viu uns outdoors, espalhados pela cidade, fazendo referência a uma síndrome, de nome bastante esquisito, associada aos professores: Síndrome de Burnout (do inglês to burn out, queimar por completo).

É bem provável, também, que já tenha pensado em procurar seu significado, ao chegar em algum lugar onde pudesse obter informações, mas acabou esquecendo, naturalmente. Ao passar pelo mesmo local, de ônibus ou de carro, o sinal pode fechar e você olhar, de novo, para aquela mensagem, tentando descobrir o significado dessa doença. Mais uma vez vai se cobrar uma rápida pesquisa sobre o assunto e, novamente, se esquecer, é claro!

Ao contrário do que imaginamos, essa síndrome não acomete só professores, como explica uma especialista no assunto, a psicóloga e pesquisadora da Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, Gisele Cristine T. M. Levy:

“A Síndrome de Burnout é um tipo de stress ocupacional. Incide em profissionais envolvidos com tarefas que exigem contato intenso com pessoas, o que provoca esgotamento emocional, refletindo-se sobre a autoestima, gerando sentimentos de frustração e exaustão relacionados ao exercício da atividade profissional.

A Síndrome afeta, de forma trágica, profissionais de diversas áreas, em particular os professores que, pela força do exercício da profissão, estão mais expostos aos efeitos do burnout”.

Considerada uma epidemia, esta Síndrome, vem assumindo proporções mundiais. Segundo pesquisadores do Canadá, quase um terço dos professores de Quebec estão afastados de suas funções, devido aos efeitos do burnout.

A Síndrome incide, sobretudo, em indivíduos altamente motivados e jovens, que reagem ao stress laboral intensificando suas atividades, até entrarem em colapso. Alguns pesquisadores afirmam que esse stress se dá em consequência desses profissionais não terem ainda aprendido a lidar com as frustrações e com as tensões diárias decorrentes da profissão.

Ameaçados em sala de aula

Segundo Gisele Levy, os sintomas são...

“Exaustão emocional, exatamente quando o profissional sente que não pode dar mais de si no nível afetivo, devido ao contato diário com os problemas. Despersonalização, estágio em que desenvolve sentimentos e atitudes negativas e de cinismo em relação às pessoas destinatárias do trabalho (usuário, clientes, alunos), apresentando endurecimento afetivo, coisificação da relação. E, também, baixa realização pessoal no trabalho, chegando a afetar a habilidade para a realização das tarefas e o atendimento ou o contato com as pessoas usuárias do trabalho, bem como com a organização dele”.

Ainda de acordo com a psicóloga, o tratamento se dá por classificação de programas que podem ser preventivos ou interventivos:

A classificação irá depender da fase da doença em que o programa for aplicado. São elas: primária, quando a preocupação é a redução dos fatores de risco de burnout, antes mesmo que estes fatores sejam percebidos como tal; secundária, quando já existe a percepção do burnout, sem que tenha, contudo, desencadeado sintomas; e a terciária: quando já existem sintomas efetivos”.

Quanto à prevenção, continua Gisele, “ela deve englobar, primordialmente, a problemática educacional e o sistema de ensino–aprendizagem.

Na intervenção direta, deve-se realizar constante autoavaliação do profissional, com o objetivo de aperfeiçoar sua formação, além de procurar compreender mais profundamente o educando e sua realidade. Já na indireta, deve-se implementar a aquisição de estratégias de enfrentamento para lidar com a síndrome”.

E acrescenta: “É importante ressaltar que as medidas de intervenção, em qualquer abordagem, devem visar encontrar no indivíduo recursos para minimizar os efeitos negativos da síndrome”.

Na análise do índice de freqüência da síndrome em professores da rede pública do ensino fundamental, Gisele Levy, que concluiu mestrado sobre o tema na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, identificou que 70% dos professores de cinco escolas de Niterói apresentavam sintomas da Síndrome de Burnout, caracterizada por exaustão física e emocional. Dentre os participantes portadores da doença, 85 % apresentavam a síndrome por se sentirem ameaçados em sala de aula.

Para saber mais, visite o blog da psicóloga entrevistada: http://www.vivasemstress.blogspot.com/

Fonte:http://www.escola24h.com.br/antenado/materias-texto.cfm?ant_id=5770&sniveleduca=pais