A clinical perspective on burnout: diagnosis, classification, and treatment of clinical burnout

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 serious problems functioning at work. This definition mostly referred to ‘clinical burnout’. The purpose this article provide insight into how clinicians Netherlands establish diagnosis they fit it classification systems. An outline given on interventions are applied therapies. different phases the – crisis, recovery, prevention, post growth, well accompanying described. It may be relevant organizational psychologists realize that biological processes play role development burnout. For physiology stress, does not matter whether stress work-related result private life both. Central understanding lack recovery (physiological) system. also argued relevance questionnaires, detecting health risk, limited.