El cuidado en equipos de trabajo en derechos humanos: factores que promueven agotamiento y propuestas de recuperación

Abstract

Work on Human Rights is generally associated with highly complex situations, with a permanent transfer of life stories with an acute emotional impact. This context promotes shares of psycho-socio-legal teams and tests their recovery. These teams are embedded in institutions that have limitations to “protect” their mental health and are accompanied by an administrative-judicial system that sometimes hinders an efficient resolution of situations of violation. This generates various psychosocial effects and professional equipment, which generally are not addressed. Psychology has paid attention to processes of care and recovery in the labor context, conceptualizations of job stress, and primarily on the effects of wear and
exhaustion (burnout) occurring in teams. This paper focuses on describing the factors that affect the wear and / or exhaustion teams working on human rights issues and proposals on recovery mechanisms are discussed.