Cognitive dispositional factors implicated in depression have also been found to be implicated in burnout. One cause of burnout includes stressors that a person is unable to cope with fully.Burnout is thought to occur when a mismatch is present between the nature of the job and the job the person is actually doing. A common indication of this mismatch is work overload, which sometimes involves a worker who survives a round of layoffs, but after the layoffs the worker finds that he or she is doing too much with too few resources. Overload may occur in the context of downsizing, which often does not narrow an organizations goals, but requires fewer employees to meet those goals. The research on downsizing, however, indicates that downsizing has more destructive effects on the health of the workers who survive the layoffs than mere burnout; these health effects include increased levels of sickness and greater risk of mortality.The job demands-resources model has implications for burnout, as measured by the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI). Physical and psychological job demands were concurrently associated with the exhaustion, as measured by the OLBI. Lack of job resources was associated with the disengagement component of the OLBI.
"Burnout also often causes a decline in the ability to update information in working memory. This is not easily treated with CBT.One reason it is difficult to treat the three standard symptoms of burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy), is because they respond to the same preventive or treatment activities in different ways.Exhaustion is more easily treated than cynicism and professional inefficacy, which tend to be more resistant to treatment. Research suggests that intervention actually may worsen the professional efficacy of a person who originally exhibited low professional efficacy.Employee rehabilitation is a tertiary preventive intervention which means the strategies used in rehabilitation are meant to alleviate burnout symptoms in individuals who are already affected without curing them. Such rehabilitation of the working population includes multidisciplinary activities with the intent of maintaining and improving employees working ability and ensuring a supply of skilled and capable labour in society. See also
Motivational crowding
Compassion fatigue
Counterproductive work behavior
Emotional exhaustion
Employee engagement
Meditation
Spoon theory
Writers block
Workaholism
KaroshiStress and the workplace

Caregiver stress
Industrial and organizational psychology
Occupational health psychology
Occupational Health Science
Perceived organizational support
Perceived psychological contract violation
Workplace stress
Teacher burnoutMedical

Acute stress disorder
Adjustment disorder
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Depression
Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis
Mental disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Stress

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