This informational handout provides a client-friendly overview of burnout and ways to address it.
Offers theory, guidance, and prompts for mental health professionals. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Includes client-friendly guidance. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Our ‘What Is … ?’ series is a collection of one-page information handouts for common mental health conditions. Friendly and explanatory, handouts in the series describe how it can feel to struggle with a difficulty and are reliable sources of information for your clients. Drawing upon established cognitive behavioral models, each handout has a particular focus on maintaining factors that might prevent the problem from getting better.
What Is Burnout? is designed to help clients experiencing burnout to understand more about this issue.
This resource is expertly designed to support clients by:
Designed to help clients affected by burnout.
Discuss the common symptoms of burnout.
Help the client understand how their symptoms fit together and make sense.
Explore what might be maintaining the client's difficulties.
Point out treatments that can be effective for addressing these issues.
Everyone has bad days at work, and problems with our workload, role, organization, or personal life can be difficult. For most of us, stress is an unavoidable part of work that comes and goes. In fact, a little stress can sometimes help us focus and perform at our best. But what if every workday is a bad day? When work-related stress becomes too great or goes on for too long, it can lead to serious problems. ‘Burnout’ describes what happens when we feel so depleted by the stresses of work that we struggle to perform. It’s as if our energy for work is ‘extinguished’ by prolonged stress, leaving us feeling emotionally drained, unmotivated, and ineffective.
The What Is Burnout? information handout is designed to help clients suffering from burnout understand more about their condition. It includes a summary of the most common symptoms of burnout and insights into why burnout might not get better by itself.
