The Research And Investigation Of Counselor’s Job Burnout Psychology

With the diversity of social value and the acceleration of pace of life, the college counselors present the characteristics of the active thinking, the rich emotion and a strong sense of self-awareness. Simultaneously, they also fall into a situation with sensitive, confusion and contradictory self-identity. The college counselors who mainly involved in student work cannot adjust mentality timely and persuade effectively will inevitably lead to a series of burnout symptoms.According to the actual work of college counselors, this paper employs the research methods of qualitative survey which is made by Maslash to make an investigation on one hundred and eleven counselors in Human province, it also called Burnout Inventory General Survey, and combining with semi-structured interviews. The research analyzes college counselor burnout from three dimensions, i.e., "emotional exhaust", "deindividuation" and "ineffective". According to research results, the psychological phenomenon of burnout happened at college counselor mainly manifest as:"the increase of negative emotions", "interpersonal disorders" and "lower self-esteem identity" and so on. Based on a system of Marxist theory, this paper proposes some strategies to ease burnout of college counselors from the perspective of positive psychology, it mainly includes following aspects:(1) to strengthen one’s own concept of happiness education and to emphasis on positive experiences; (2) to strengthen professional ethics education and to love of student work; (3) to strengthen education of self-esteem and to enhance job satisfaction etc. It hopes to improve the efficiency of counselors and to find the right position in college work so that to enrich and develop their functional responsibilities and to deepen their understanding of mental health education, meanwhile, they have a positive affection on students, and becoming a mentor with students on comprehensive development and healthy growth.