Full Description
Are you always exhausted? Unable to feel for others or for life's pleasures? Find it hard to concentrate and take in what you read? You may have burnout.
Burnout is widespread among high achievers in the workplace, in business and in caring professions like health and teaching. Parents with new babies and those caring for the elderly and people with disabilities are also at risk. Although burnout is so common, it's often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed - most commonly as depression.
Drawing on groundbreaking new research, this book hands you the tools to work out whether you have burnout - or not. The good news? It is possible to recover from even severe burnout. The authors show you how to recognise your own burnout pattern, how far you have travelled into burnout territory, and provide a broad-based management approach to help you regain your spark and build your resilience.
With fascinating new insights into the biology of burnout, and stories from people who have brought themselves back from the brink, Burnout is a complete guide for anyone who suspects they may have burnout, for their families, for health professionals and employers.
Contents
Introduction
Three personal stories
Part I: What is Burnout?
1 Burnout: forerunners and variants
2 Burnout: its modern history
3 Defining and identifying burnout
4 The Sydney Studies
5 What burnout is not
6 Burnout versus depression
7 The biology of burnout
Part II: Causes of Burnout: The Seed and the Soil
8 The workers' dilemma
9 The toxic workplace
10 Occupations at high risk
11 Forgotten caregivers
12 Predisposing factors
13 Perfectionism
Part III: Overcoming Burnout and Rekindling the Flame
14 Resolving burnout: an introduction
15 For managers
16 For workers and caregivers
17 De-stressing
18 Managing perfectionism
19 Pulling it all together
A final note and personal story
Appendices
Appendix A The Sydney Burnout Measure (SBM)
Appendix B Workplace triggers
Appendix C Perfectionism scale
Appendix D Resources for workers and caregivers
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
