Preventing Burnout

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Preventing Burnout

• Developed by Giesela Grumbach, LCSW
• Molly Hofer, MA
• Sara Sharp, Intern
• Reviewed by Constance Shapiro, Ph.D.

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Objectives

• Define burnout
• Examine what leads to burnout
• Consider strategies for addressing
• burnout

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Defining burnout

• stress or syndrome
• exhaustion
• cynicism
• general sense of unhappiness
• diminished interests / capacity
• negative evaluation of self

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Organizational Stress

• Excessive changes
• Over specialization
• Over work

(Brueggemann, 2006)
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For more information contact

• grumbach_at_uiuc.edu
• To schedule a program contact your local
  Extension County Office
• Will, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Grundy,
  Winnebago