Professional Burnout in Medicine and the Helping Professions

<p>Physicians and other helping professionals have created a practical hands-on book that will aid in the identification and reduction of job stress. Nurses physicians thanatologists and psychotherapists are among the growing number of health care professionals whose physical and mental health are being severely affected by work stress. <br>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. Professional Burnout in Medicine and the Helping Professions also 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 recognizing the signs and reducing or efficiently managing causative factors.</p>