The Burnout Companion To Study And Practice

This book provides an overview of the burnout syndrome from its earliest recorded occurrences to current empirical studies. It reviews perceptions that burnout is particularly prevalent among certain professional groups and introduces individual inter- personal, workload, occupational, organizational, social and cultural factors.

Burnout in perspective - "discovery" and content; symptoms and definitions; theoretical approaches to burnout - individual/social/organisational; empirical findings - measurement/prevalence; what burns out?; interventions.