Staff Burn-Out, Journal of Social Issues (1974); Burn-Out: The High Cost of High Achievement, Anchor Press/Doubleday (1980)

Cited in blog · The original burnout frame is about resource depletion. 'Stress' is the incoming demand. 'Burnout' is what happens when those demands consistently exceed the system's capacity for recovery. It's a sta · 1974

Freudenberger (1974). Staff Burn-Out, *Journal of Social Issues* (1974); Burn-Out: The High Cost of High Achievement, Anchor Press/Doubleday (1980) — The original burnout frame is about resource depletion. 'Stress' is the incoming demand. 'Burnout' is what happens when those demands consistently exceed the system's capacity for recovery. It's a state of physiological bankruptcy.

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Freudenberger (1974). Staff Burn-Out, *Journal of Social Issues* (1974); Burn-Out: The High Cost of High Achievement, Anchor Press/Doubleday (1980) — The original burnout frame is about resource depletion. 'Stress' is the incoming demand. 'Burnout' is what happens when those demands consistently exceed the system's capacity for recovery. It's a state of physiological bankruptcy.

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