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Tom Cox, George Kuk & Michael Leiter, “Burnout, Health, Work Stress and Organizational Healthiness”

May 19, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Burnout, Emotions, Format – Book Chapter, Stress – Work Stress, Well-being

This chapter explores burnout and work stress. Burnout is “an emotionally depleted state experiences by people in the helping professions” (178). Burnout is highly rooted in social context and determination. On the other hand, work stress focuses on the “interaction between the person and the environment”(179). Work stress exists in relation to the processes that…