Burnout is a serious problem that deserves all of our attention. An academic who studies the issue offers some practical tips to deal with the problems associated with burnout.
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Tackling mental health problems early can help prevent them from getting worse.
Physician burnout is a severe problem in the medical field, made much worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. But an online coaching program that could be scaled up had dramatic results for participants.
Health organisations must play their part in preventing burnout and moral injury in workers. Most factors leading to it – such as lack of resources and staff – are outside the control of individuals.
With teachers reporting record-high levels of burnout, and more burnout than any other profession in the US, scholars examine what’s going on and what it may mean for education.
Academics described their universities as exploitative, oppressive, toxic and fiscally driven. They felt themselves being dehumanised and demoralised by management. Most reported feelings of burnout.
Burnout among health-care workers has implications for the whole workforce, and patients too.
The resignation of the director-general of health and two of his deputies highlights the risk of burnout during the pandemic. What can employers do to help overwhelmed workers?
Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
Making daily time to connect with their children is an important way of nurturing family experiences and relationships and to find restoration.
Devotion to work can lead to burnout.
Although demanding, disruptive and violent patients are a major contributor to physician burnout, solutions to address this increasing problem are not a priority.
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
The health care system is hemorrhaging medical lab workers, in part because of COVID-19 infections and also because of burnout, low wages and better opportunities elsewhere.
Workplaces, in addition to providing critical organizational resources, can encourage employees to undertake a voluntary workplace well-being streak, or employees can commit to their own.
Research shows that people with more flow in their lives had a higher sense of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists are beginning to explore what happens in the brain during flow.
Elite employers have created an atmosphere where workers constantly seek to be as busy as possible. Families are often the first casualty of this culture.
Black Friday, Christmas, and other ‘shopping events’ take a toll on the temporary workers hired to get purchases to consumers.
The quality of grit – passion and sustained persistence – is a useful predictor of burnout and exhaustion for doctors and maybe the rest of us too.
Long-term solutions to the nursing shortage call for changes that value nurses and offer them a safe place to work.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Health, The Open University
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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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Assistant Professor of Special Education, Boston University
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Business psychologist, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Research Officer, UNSW School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Florida
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Director of the Office for Education Policy, University of Arkansas
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Saint Louis University
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Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas
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Professor of Education and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality, University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor of Education, Kansas State University
