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Beating burnout : helping the all-or-nothing personality to find balance

Beating burnout : helping the all-or-nothing personality to find balance

McKinney, Mike, 1959- author.
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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, McKinney...

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Achievement motivation
Burn out (Psychology)
Cognitive balance
Personality and motivation
Personality and situation
Stress (Psychology)
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ISBN:
9781923011069 (trade paperback)
9781923011069
Description:
223 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Making sense of burnout
Who is more likely to develop burnout?
Where (and why) did this approach begin?
What keeps this all going?
Turning the tide
The harsh internal critic : an unhelpful passenger
Striving for perfection, or needing to be perfect?
Health and wellbeing
New perspectives, achievement, and the 'me'
Plotting a (future) life course amidst and beyond burnout
Building for the future, despite the uncertainty of burnout
The partner's journey (or the canary in the coalmine)
Conclusion
Control Number:
3385410
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