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A clinical perspective on burnout: diagnosis, classification, and treatment of clinical burnout
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In clinical psychology, burnout is regarded as a mental disorder assessed in patients who apply for psychological treatment and no longer work because of their symptoms or experience of serious problems in functioning at work. This definition of burnout is mostly referred to as ‘clinical burnout’. The purpose of this article is to provide insight into how clinicians in The Netherlands establish a diagnosis of clinical burnout and how they fit it in their classification systems. An outline is given on how psychological interventions for burnout are applied in therapies. The different phases in the treatment of clinical burnout – crisis, recovery, prevention, and post burnout growth, as well as their accompanying interventions are described. It may be relevant for work and organizational psychologists to realize that biological processes may play a role in the development of clinical burnout. For the physiology of stress, it does not matter whether the stress is work-related or the result of stress in private life or both. Central to understanding clinical burnout is the lack of recovery of the (physiological) stress system. It is also argued that the relevance of questionnaires, for detecting who is at serious health risk, is limited.
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- Authors
- van Dam, A.
- Affiliations
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- van Dam, Arno
- ORCID
- van Dam, Arno
- Venue
- European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-07-14
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 732-741
- ISSN
- 1359-432X (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0643
- OpenAlex
- W3179381565
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 19.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Occupational Health and Burnout
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Keywords
- burnout diagnosis, burnout recovery, burnout prevention, occupational stress, burnout questionnaire, health risk assessment
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