Literature Review On Stress And Burnout

Burnout is a gradual onset with symptoms coming on over time slowly. Burnout symptoms may include physical exhaustion, hopelessness, negative self-concept, having difficulty leaving home, and inability to concentrate are just some of the symptoms. Due to the gradual onset of symptoms, it is often hard to detect early (Dass-Brailsford, 2007). In McCann and Pearlman’s article they discuss burnout as a, “psychological strain from working with difficult populations” (McCann & Pearlman, 1990).

Staff members in state mental health facilities are not properly equipped or adequately trained for the growing number of dangerous patients who come in through the Criminal Justice System. Dresser reports, “[Employees at mental health facilities other than Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center] say they lack the staffing, equipment and training to deal with the growing number of so-called "forensic" cases — patients sent to state hospitals by the courts — that Perkins can't

Ellis argues that law enforcement officers are ill prepared to handle individuals that experience a mental health crisis, allowing a safe intervention for the officers as well as the involved individuals. Subsequently, the promotion of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), is promoted as a technique that can assist law enforcement agencies in intervention to handle the mentally ill crisis. To assist in this task, this article views CIT from the nursing aspect, reviewing law enforcement’s comprehension, understanding, awareness, and the overall attitude of law enforcement staff. In addition, viewing the role of psychiatric-mental health nurse can be beneficial in a community collaborative community-based health care system. The article notes, with

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All of the definitions of burnout mention the main factor of burnout to be stress. Pamela Patrick, in her book about Health Care Worker Burnout, defined burnout as “the feeling of emotional exhaustion, a negative attitude shift, and a sense of personal devaluation that occurs over time and in relation to high stress work environment”. Whiton Paine in his book on job stress and burnout used the concept of burnout stress syndrome, or BOSS, which is due to “high levels of job stress, personal frustration and inadequate coping skills”.

One of the warrants stated by the authors is that all previous study on the subject has focused on similar claims of why burnout occurs. The authors then list the previous claims for why burnout occurs in this employment sector. This makes it very clear to the reader the

I appreciate your straight forwardness in regards to your negative habits. Rӧssler (2012) states that the risk for burnout for certain occupations mostly for individuals employed in the health care industry. As a mother, I understand the unique and additional stress that comes along with parenting. Piggybacking off of your comment about pastimes, I too enjoy listening to music as a stress reliever.

Blau, Tatum, and Goldberg (2013) indicated that burnout has been studied in various mental health workers, including; case managers, psychologist, psychotherapist, social workers, rehabilitation counselor, and intensive care workers. Due to the nature of the field and high involvement with the others, mental health workers are likely to experience burnout (Sangganjanavanich & Balkin, 2010). Multiple job duties can cause unnecessary stress within the work environment when daily task is not managed properly among mental health professionals. In a survey completed by the American Counseling Association (ACA) 75.7% of mental health professionals that colleagues coping with burnout are significant threat to the profession of counseling (Puig, Baggs, Mixon, Park, Kim, & Lee, 2011). Of those professional, 63.5% indicated that they are aware of colleagues who cope with burnout (Puig, Baggs, Mixon, Park, Kim & Lee, 2011).

The research that I have chosen correlates burnout and depression. It asks the question, “Is Burnout a Depressive Disorder?” It further reexamines burnout with special focus on atypical depression. Its main purpose is to study the prevalence of depression disorder in workers with burnout while surveying the overlap of burnout with atypical depression. (Bianchi, Schonfeld , & Laurent, 2014) The researchers have derived this problem from researching through previous literature and researches that discuss about burnout, depression and furthermore into atypical depression; in which they have noted that burnout shares key features with atypical depression. (APA, 1994; Quitkin, 2002). In their research, the researchers referenced a study that used more conservative cutoff scores for defining cases of burnout, have found no diagnostically significant difference between burned-out workers and depressed outpatients in terms of reported depressive symptoms. (Bianchi et al. (2013). The author of the study suggested that burnout and depression may, in fact, reflect the same psychopathology. There are other study that the researcher have referenced that further support the finding that burnout share the same similarities as depression. Although they have also deduced that the overlap of burnout and atypical depression has never been investigated in a systematic manner. Thus the need for the study as burnout should be considered a form of depression still remains a controversy

Do you feel exhausted, anxious, or dread the thought of going to work each day? In last month’s article, we discussed these subtle signs (and more) which indicate your body may be headed for burnout. Already feeling burned out? Let’s look at some steps you can take to overcome this chronically stressful state and begin thriving again.

Burnout is a combination of factors, including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and the reduced sense of personal accomplishment (Maslach, 1982). Emotional exhaustion is accompanied with a lack of compassion and motivation to work, while depersonalization leads to irritability.

Burnout is prevalent to neurology. There are many reasons why our practitioners experience burnout. Workload, autonomy, support staff, difficulty with work-life integration, and loss of value/meaning in the work are key drivers. Twenty years ago, we did not have the internet at our fingertips and many of the other social stressors. Our patients are able to Google diagnoses and treatments. This means that burnout techniques that were common 20 years ago may not work today. There are many ways to respond to others around us. Dr. Rafael Llinas says active, constructive responding is reacting positively and being interested and caring. This may be a way to provide resiliency to each other.

It is evident that the relationship between work stress and mental health has been established by numerous research studies. As discussed in Koesky (1993), the fact that all jobs involve some degree of stress makes it all the more alarming as to the level of stress experienced by individuals working in the human services. That is, given that these individuals are heavily involved in the lives of others, they often develop mental health symptoms that are characteristic of work-related stressors. In fact, “This involvement, which requires caring commitment and empathic responding, places workers at risk for a special type of strain commonly referred to as 'burnout'” (Koesky, 1993, p. 319).

Do you ever feel tired after endless days of work, exhausted after the daily grind, or distraught after you poor your heart and soul into a task only to be repaid in only the most minuscule of scraps? Eventually, you are not happy anymore. You go back to work in order to physically survive, but you definitely are not thriving. This is actually a serious condition, referred to as burnout, which is affecting millions of Americans according to an article written by Jari J. Hakanen and Arnold B. Bakker speaking of this little-discussed topic. The article, titled “Born and Bred to Burn Out” introduces its topic fairly well and contains fairly high quality of research used, at least in my eyes. It mentions how it was difficult to obtain its research,

Any work environment can have stressful aspects that can negatively affect the employees’ performance and may lead to burnout. Oftentimes when employees are stressed or burnout their commitment at the job may begin to weaken and they may lose satisfaction. Many organizations have recognized that workers burnout is the result of aggravated chronic work stressors and embodied by enervation and inefficacy. This author will discuss the impact of stress and worker burnout on organizations. Moreover, this author will consider the implication of stress and worker burnout on the employee, as well as the short- and long-term productivity of a business.