Interdisciplinary Historical and Theoretical Framework on Burn Sample Clauses

Interdisciplinary Historical and Theoretical Framework on Burn out‌ The social and cultural context of emerging burn-out When burn-out began to be described and discussed in the 1970s, it was primarily in reference to work in the human services, such as health care, social work, psychotherapy, legal services, and po- lice work. Qualitative interviews and case studies gave a vivid picture of the experience in which people lost both their energy and their sense of the value of their job. The loss of meaning was espe- cially poignant within professions dedicated to lofty goals to help and serve others. Tellingly, burn- out discussions began within the human services, because they were better able to give “voice” to issues of emotions, values, and relationships with people – concepts that had not been widely recog- nized within the research literature on the workplace. The roots of the burn-out concept seem to be embedded within several broad social, economic, and cultural developments of the 1960s in the USA.