Research and burnout
Here is an extract from ASU International (ASUI) - a monthly online journal for scientific issues in the field of occupational medicine, social medicine and environmental medicine. It confirms that there are some very differing opinions surrounding burnout.
The differentiation of burnout syndrome from other psychological disorders, particularly from depression and adjustment disorders, is difficult (Kaschka et al. 2011).
An appropriate classification in the DSM-IV does not exist. Instead, burnout is listed under 68.20 “Occupational problems”.
According to the ICD-10, burnout falls under “Z73 – Problems related to life-management difficulty“ and specially under “Z73.0 – Burnout: State of vital exhaustion“ (German Ministry of Health, 2013).
A working group of the Finnish Health 2000 Study recommends the inclusion of burnout into the upper category, “Depression spectrum disorders“ (Ahola et al. 2005).
Nil et al. (2010) states that burnout depicts more of a work psychology concept and not a psychiatric diagnosis, and can therefore often be a cause for depression (Nil et al. 2010).
These are just some of the many conflicting pieces of research and attempts at classifying burnout.
In our forthcoming video "Making Sense of Burnout" I think we have ten or so different possible classifications of burnout. For example - could burnout be an industrial injury? Controversial stuff perhaps but looking at ALL the possible definitions of or classifications of burnout is important - not least because it helps to highlight the fact that there is quite a lot of disagreement and confusion about burnout which is not helping to get it properly on the map so to speak. Everyone it seems has an opinion on burnout and whilst some of these opinions may be highly relevant - this does nothing help YOU to get YOUR burnout addressed right now.
Our approach to burnout at Burnout Geese is to help everyone learn some of the basics about burnout so that it becomes less "under the radar" and thus easier to talk about.
The differentiation of burnout syndrome from other psychological disorders, particularly from depression and adjustment disorders, is difficult (Kaschka et al. 2011).
An appropriate classification in the DSM-IV does not exist. Instead, burnout is listed under 68.20 “Occupational problems”.
According to the ICD-10, burnout falls under “Z73 – Problems related to life-management difficulty“ and specially under “Z73.0 – Burnout: State of vital exhaustion“ (German Ministry of Health, 2013).
A working group of the Finnish Health 2000 Study recommends the inclusion of burnout into the upper category, “Depression spectrum disorders“ (Ahola et al. 2005).
Nil et al. (2010) states that burnout depicts more of a work psychology concept and not a psychiatric diagnosis, and can therefore often be a cause for depression (Nil et al. 2010).
These are just some of the many conflicting pieces of research and attempts at classifying burnout.
In our forthcoming video "Making Sense of Burnout" I think we have ten or so different possible classifications of burnout. For example - could burnout be an industrial injury? Controversial stuff perhaps but looking at ALL the possible definitions of or classifications of burnout is important - not least because it helps to highlight the fact that there is quite a lot of disagreement and confusion about burnout which is not helping to get it properly on the map so to speak. Everyone it seems has an opinion on burnout and whilst some of these opinions may be highly relevant - this does nothing help YOU to get YOUR burnout addressed right now.
Our approach to burnout at Burnout Geese is to help everyone learn some of the basics about burnout so that it becomes less "under the radar" and thus easier to talk about.