Beyond burnout : helping teachers, nurses, therapists, and lawyers recover from stress and disillusionment
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Beyond burnout : helping teachers, nurses, therapists, and lawyers recover from stress and disillusionment
Routledge, 1995
- : pbk
Available at 20 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Why are so many in the helping professions perceived as lacking idealism or commitment? Beyond Burnout, based on a unique, in-depth, longitudinal study, explores the source of this problem. Professionals describe in their own words what happened to them when their idealism collided with the realities of their work.
Table of Contents
- Part One: Setting the Stage: 1. The First Year: "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Hell"
- 2. From Stress to Burnout
- Part Two: The Next Decade: 3. The Flight from Public Service
- 4. More Compassion-For Those Who Deserve It
- 5. More Open to change-On Their Terms
- 6. Why Work? Shifting Priorities
- 7. Fulfillment and Regret
- Part Three: HowSome Overcame Burnout: 8. Five Who Prevailed
- 9. Antidotes to Burnout: Finding Meaningful Work
- 10. Antidotes to Burnout: Finding Greater Professional Autonomy and Support
- 11. Antidotes to Burnout: What the Individual Brings to Work
- 12. Some Implications for Policy and Practice
- 13. What's Missing? The Quest for Meaning.
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