Abstract
Burnout is a common term that has been used in the healthcare world, where professionals express their exhaustion around work demands and challenges. While much is known about how burnout and compassion fatigue affect physicians in their work environment, little has been covered how these stresses affect behavioral health providers and new mental health professionals entering medical settings. In this chapter, the author presents a new framework for identifying burnout, outlining a scale of burnout levels that behavioral health providers might experience. This framework moves beyond burnout as a binary construct and instead involves several personal, familial, and professional factors that may impact the trainee at certain points of their work. Two case vignettes highlight some of the cultural issues that might impact burnout of new providers in medical context. Suggestions for giving support for those experiencing burnout are provided at different clinical and administrative levels.
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Zubatsky, M., Williams-Reade, J. (2020). Burnout and Fatigue. In: Zubatsky, M., Williams-Reade, J. (eds) Self of the Therapist in Medical Settings. AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39271-0_5
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