Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD.
Palliat Support Care. 2023 Feb;21(1):38-42. doi: 10.1017/S1478951522000414.
Meaning-centered psychotherapy (MCP) principles may provide a framework for engaging healthcare professionals in meaning-centered exploration as a novel approach to prevent burnout and enhance wellbeing in healthcare professionals through heightening personal meaning. This case study aimed to teach MCP to masters-trained social workers for use with medical patients. While the primary aim was to teach MCP to masters-trained social workers, this proof-of-concept project and this paper focus on a secondary aim of enhancing meaning and connection in the virtual workplace.
A group of social workers participated in a 7-session MCP pilot from October 13th to November 24th, 2020. After each session, participants were asked to complete an anonymous continuing education evaluation with questions regarding clarity, organization, and relevance of the presentation related to use with their patient populations. Additional open-ended items queried participants for general comments about their experience using MCP to enhance professional fulfillment during COVID-19.
Nine social workers participated in the MCP pilot. Several qualitative themes emerged, including enhanced meaning, communication, connection, and agency in the virtual workplace.
This pilot demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of using an adapted MCP instruction with hospital-based social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate wellbeing. While MCP was originally created to intervene with patients with life-threatening illnesses, the brief, manualized experiential nature of the intervention lends itself to modification with staff for the purpose of enhancing meaning and community in their own lives.
以意义为中心的心理治疗（MCP）原则可以为医疗保健专业人员提供一个框架，以进行以意义为中心的探索，作为一种预防倦怠和通过增强个人意义来提高医疗保健专业人员幸福感的新方法。本案例研究旨在向硕士水平的社会工作者教授 MCP，以用于医疗患者。虽然主要目的是向硕士水平的社会工作者教授 MCP，但这个概念验证项目和本文重点关注的是次要目标，即在虚拟工作场所中增强意义和联系。
一组社会工作者参加了从 2020 年 10 月 13 日至 11 月 24 日进行的 7 次 MCP 试点。每次会议后，要求参与者完成一项匿名继续教育评估，其中包含与将 MCP 用于其患者群体相关的演示文稿的清晰度、组织和相关性的问题。其他开放式项目询问参与者关于在 COVID-19 期间使用 MCP 增强专业成就感的一般意见。
有 9 名社会工作者参加了 MCP 试点。出现了几个定性主题，包括在虚拟工作场所中增强了意义、沟通、联系和代理。
该试点表明，在 COVID-19 大流行期间，使用经过改编的 MCP 指令对医院社会工作者进行干预以促进幸福感是可行且可接受的。虽然 MCP 最初是为干预患有危及生命疾病的患者而创建的，但干预措施的简短、手册化的体验性质使其可以针对员工进行修改，目的是增强他们生活中的意义和社区感。
