Burn-out syndrom and its impact on workers of helping profession in the Church

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of burnout syndrome and its impact on Church related community workers, in order to determine how much are these workers endangered, how to take care of these workers and whether their employers are familiar with the risks of burnout syndrome. The first chapters are devoted to the theoretical definition of burnout syndrome in the overall view on this issue, but also takes a closer look on Church related community workers in the helping profession in the Church. I'm trying to capture a fully describe the motivation for helping, factors leading to burnout syndrome, diagnosis, prevention and treatment. The final chapter and the whole practical part is devoted to the history and characteristics of the studied groups, which form the priests of the three largest churches in our country: Roman Catholic, Evangelical and Czechoslovak Hussite Church. This part is a quantitative research. To illustrate the work I decided to include three case studies that document the real life stories of burnout syndrome at different stages