Physicians and other helping professionals have created a practical, hands-on book that will aid in the identification and reduction of job stress. This unique volume achieves what no earlier book has attempted for this specialized professional group. It offers a thorough understanding of professional burnout, elaborating how burnout develops and offering a model with which to identify job stressors.
Key Features
- Thorough Understanding: Provides insights into professional burnout and its development.
- Specialised Focus: Addresses the needs of various health care professionals including nurses, physicians, and psychotherapists.
- Intervention Strategies: Identifies stages of disillusionment and offers successful intervention strategies for managing stress.
- Ethical Considerations: Examines the values, ethics, and morality surrounding burnout in health care organisations.
Additional Information
Professional Burnout in Medicine and the Helping Professions offers an in-depth exploration of stress and burnout issues from the perspectives of specific medical and helping profession disciplines—physicians, nurses, social workers, psychotherapists, teachers, consultants, agency and hospital workers, funeral directors, and more.
Experts in these fields examine the values, ethics, and morality of individuals, health care organizations, and society that may lead to burnout. This in-depth and highly practical volume identifies the stages of disillusionment and offers successful intervention strategies for recognising the signs and reducing or efficiently managing causative factors.
