Burnout : job stress in the human service professions

Burnout is a common metaphor for a state of extreme psychophysical exhaustion, usually work-related.

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 - police officers, social workers, teachers, financial traders - and introduces individual inter- personal, workload, occupational, organizational, social and cultural factors.

Burnout deals with occurrence, measurement, assessment as well as intervention and treatment programmes.; This textbook should prove useful to occupational and organizational health and safety researchers and practitioners around the world.

It should also be a valuable resource for human resources professional and related management professionals.