Mental health professionals experiencing burnout

With more Canadians, including health-care providers accessing mental health services, mental health practitioners are coping with ever-increasing workloads, work demands and compassion fatigue.

After two-and-a-half years of COVID-related illness and death, social isolation, quarantines, lockdowns and uncertainty, there is and continues to be an increase in the uptake of mental health-care services in Canada, writes Melissa Enmore. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY MELISSA ENMORE

October 3, 2022

What is the situation regarding mental health professionals experiencing burnout as increasingly large demands are placed on their services? How can we address the strain being felt by mental health-care providers? Prior to March 2020, the mental health system in Canada was already under pressure, ...

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