Beating Burnout

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. He found that common underlying personality traits in an individual can result in an increased vulnerability towards developing burnout.

While workplace changes are often touted as the answer to burnout, the author draws on his clinical experience of over 25 years to show what is within one's power to change about themselves, enabling greater resilience to burnout and a better balance in life. He deftly demonstrates how certain 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. He 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.