negativism or cynicism related to one’s job
3. reduced professional efficacy
Before making the call, the document says doctors should first rule out adjustment disorder as well as anxiety and mood disorders. The diagnosis is limited to work environments, and shouldn’t be applied to other life situations.
Despite studying burnout for decades, researchers have long found burnout to be a blurry cultural concept that has defied attempts to create a specific consensus definition scientists can all agree on. Now, the focus has narrowed.
According to CNN.com, psychologist Herbert Freudenberger is credited with inaugurating the formal study of the state of burnout with a scientific article published in 1974. This information is accredited to a 2017 review of literature published in the journal SAGE Open.
The authors of that review, Linda and Torsten Heinemann, say that over the next four decades, hundreds of studies appeared on the subject. During that time, they claimed that burnout was not