Professional quality of life in home visitors

Core components of the reflective supervisory relationship and IMH‐E ® Endorsement ® engagement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11277486
AutoresTanika Eaves (0000-0001-9560-8489, Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies Undergraduate Social Work Program Fairfield University Fairfield Connecticut USA, autor de correspondencia), JoAnn Robinson (0000-0001-8490-264X, University of Connecticut), JoAnn L Robinson (Department of Human Development and Family Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA), Edna Brown (Department of Human Development and Family Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA), Preston A Britner (0000-0001-5192-6100, University of Connecticut), Preston Britner (Department of Human Development and Family Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA)
Año2022
Volumen43
Número2
Páginas242-255
Fecha de publicación2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInfant Mental Health Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-9641 • E-ISSN: 1097-0355
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/imhj.21970
PMID35141906
OpenAlexW4210997718
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas28

Infant and early childhood home visiting models are gaining prominence as effective programs for families. Most U.S. state infant mental health associations (IMHAs) recommend reflective supervision (RS) and Infant Mental Health (IMH‐E ® ) Endorsement ® as components of home visitor professional development. These efforts may promote workforce professional quality of life. It is unknown whether a workplace policy to provide RS improves the likelihood that best practice guidelines, especially core components of a reflective supervisory relationship, are experienced by the workforce. We sought to investigate associations between home visitor well‐being indicated by professional quality of life (i.e., burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion satisfaction) and a workplace policy providing RS, consistent experience of core components of a reflective supervisory relationship, and engagement in endorsement. We also examined differences in consistently experiencing core components of the reflective supervisory relationship in home visitors who reported having a workplace policy for providing RS and those who did not, and for home visitors engaged or not engaged in the endorsement process. A Workplace Supports Survey was designed to investigate these associations; we report findings from a sample of home visitor respondents ( N = 139). A policy to provide RS was not associated with professional quality of life. However, analyses suggest an association between a policy to provide RS and consistently experiencing core components of a reflective supervisory relationship. Unanticipated positive associations between engagement in endorsement and burnout and secondary traumatic stress were also found. Finally, engagement in endorsement was associated with less consistent experience of these core components. Implications for future inquiry about the purposes of RS and IECMH Endorsement ® as strategies to promote workforce development and well‐being are discussed

Burnout · Compassion fatigue · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Visitor pattern · Workforce · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Family and Disability Support Research · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology