Feeling exhausted, unable to concentrate and wanting to withdraw and disconnect from the world and those around you? You could be heading towards burnout.
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Articles on Burnout
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Burnout as the result of workplace stress has big implications for employers. Occupational health and safety standards require employers to protect both the physical and mental health of workers.
Provider burnout is expensive for the health system given its associations with low quality of care, absenteeism, and high workforce turnover.
The cognitive effort of managing the conflicting messages of a working through a pandemic is tiring us out.
Teachers’ professional lives can be highly demanding, pressured, stressful and at times, emotionally exhausting. But there’s an unspoken demand they suppress their emotions and just get on with it.
A new book presents burnout as a generational issue, but this is a trap.
By 2030, the WHO projects a worldwide workforce shortfall of about 18 million health-care workers, with potentially deadly consequences for patients, economies and our communities.
Preventing teacher burnout is a community responsibility we can address. If those who have become first responders in schools withdraw we will also see adverse effects on students.
Burnout can affect the type of care the patients receive.
Veterinarians are already at risk of emotional distress and burnout. The experiences of an Alberta veterinary practice shows COVID-19 is having a further impact.
Nurses on the front lines of a pandemic need education, training and institutional support.
Nearly 90% of emergency service staff have experienced stress, low mood and poor mental health.
Daily recovery can not only relieve burnout – it may also prevent it in the first place.
We need to recapture the humanity of the NHS and make doctors feel more than grinding cogs in a brutal machine.
Stress, and more chronic exhaustion such as burnout, is commonplace within the modern workplace.
A focus on more realistic performance outcomes can help students cope when things do not go to plan.
The food we eat and the products we use should not contribute to human misery. While companies hold some blame, so do consumers who avoid dealing with the consequences of their purchasing decisions.
In Nordic and Latin American countries, education systems promote well-being and resilience. The UK still has a lot to learn.
The benefits of midwifery for women and babies globally are clear. In Canada, innovations in midwifery centres and services are tempered by low pay and high rates of burnout.
Inequality, poverty, austerity, pollution and a faster pace of life all put strains on city-dwellers – but insights from psychology could help create a more supportive urban environment.
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer in Health, The Open University
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Professor of Education and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality, University of Arkansas
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Saint Louis University
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Assistant Professor of Education, Kansas State University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Florida
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Research Officer, UNSW School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney
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Business psychologist, Lancaster University
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Associate Director of the Office for Education Policy, University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor of Special Education, Boston University
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Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
