A comprehensive guide to the reasons behind burnout, with effective, practical ways to manage and prevent burnout to create a more balanced future.
Burnout is a phenomenon that can happen to anyone, yet it is most often found in high-pressured workplaces, especially those where promotions and target achievement are valued. In this timely book, clinical psychologist Mike McKinney takes an informed look at the features of burnout, why and how burnout happens, and the signs it might be about to strike.
After noticing an increase in patients struggling with burnout in their work roles, Mike McKinney used his extensive experience to gain a better understanding behind the reasons for this growth. What he found was that there are common underlying personality traits in an individual that can result in an increased vulnerability towards the development of burnout.
While workplace changes are often touted as the answer to burnout, the author draws on his clinical experience over more than 25 years to show the reader what is within their power to change about themselves, so they can create greater resilience to burnout and a better balance in life. He deftly demonstrates how particular personality traits can contribute towards burnout, such as:
the quest for perfection fear of failure beliefs around personal performance having an ‘all-or-nothing’ approach holding impossibly high personal expectations.
The author then provides options and answers, along with suggestions for positive changes that can be sustained, and offers ways to help the reader consider a wider (and possibly new) purpose in life that is underpinned by ways to enhance resilience.
Beating Burnout is an insightful, practical book for professionals and anyone experiencing burnout, as well as those who would like to help someone in burnout.
By:
Mike McKinney
Imprint: Exisle
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781923011069
ISBN 10: 1923011065
Series: Empower
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 05 February 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Making sense of burnout Who is more likely to develop burnout? Where (and why) did this approach begin? What keeps this all going? Turning the tide The harsh internal critic: an unhelpful passenger Striving for perfection, or needing to be perfect? Health and wellbeing New perspectives, achievement, and the ‘me’ Plotting a (future) life course amidst and beyond burnout Building for the future, despite the uncertainty of burnout The partner’s journey (or the canary in the coalmine Conclusion Bibliography Index
Mike McKinney is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked in both public and private practice settings, and over the years has become intrigued by the potential for an individual’s personality style to affect decisions and behaviours in relation to achievement.
