(in English): The diploma thesis deals with the burnout syndrome in social workers who work with people with a mental illness. The theoretical part presents knowledge about burnout syndrome, its symptoms, risk factors, treatment, general prevention, and supervision as a specific prevention of burnout syndrome. It also discusses the burnout syndrome in social workers and the stressors of working with people with a mental illness. The practical part is focused on quantitative research, in which the respondents use the Shirom-Melamed burnout measure to determine the incidence of burnout and the necessary data on the respondents using supplementary questions. The practical part also contains an additional qualitative part of the research. The main goal of this work is to determine whether the burnout syndrome occurs in this group of social workers to a greater extent than in people who work in other fields. The sub- objectives are to show whether there is a statistically significant correlation between burnout syndrome and age, gender, absence of supervision, number of clients, satisfaction in the workforce and length of stay in the current employment of respondents. The qualitative part of the research aims to identify the biggest source of stress in the employment of social workers.

The first part of this thesis is focused on the literature review that is concerned with Burnout syndrome. The work analyses the development of the burnout concept from the early start in 70th of the 20th century till present-day. It covers major topics that include the definition of the Burnout Syndrome, the difference among Burnout Syndrome and other mental states, signs, symptoms, diagnostics and phases of the Burnout Syndrome and last but least the analysis of the factors, that contribute to formation of the Burnout Syndrome. The factors are divided into two categories, the first are external and the other are internal. The second part of thesis consists of the empirical research. The research examines the difference in copying with Burnout Syndrome between the two groups, where the first group represents psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists who work with clients and the other group, that represents IT specialists, who minimally need to deal their job with people. The empirical part provides the differences between scores of these two groups in SMBM (Shirom-Melamed scale), LET (Life Engagement Test) and ICL (Interpersonal Check List). The goal of this part is to test assumption, that claims the relationship among Burnout Syndrome and intrapsychic or interpersonal context. Keywords:...

The theoretical part deals with key issues of burnout - a definition, phase of syndrome, diagnostic classification, prevention, and mainly deals with the description of the methods by which the level of burnout is detected. Now probably the most common diagnostic tools are the MBI (Maslach Burnout Inventory) and its derivatives (eg. MBI-General Survey), but there are many other methods, such as developed by Israeli and European psychologists (BoTeLis, OLBI, CBI, MBS, etc.). The goal is to assemble a relatively complete overview of these diagnostic tools.In the empirical part, is to verify the psychometric properties of Czech version of the selected methods on a set of population, describe and analyze their characteristics.