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During the past decade the topic of burnout has become increasingly popular among the helping professions as a way of describing and understanding work-related stresses (Edelwich and Brodsky, 1980; Freudenberger, 1974; Greenberg and Valletutti, 1980; Patrick, 1981; Pines, Aronson and Kafry, 1981; Welch, Medeiros, and Tate, 1982). Viewed as the end result of chronic stress, this phenomenon has generated the development of a literature that touches upon and attempts to integrate a range of psychological perspectives from Albert Ellis (Ellis and Harper, 1961) to transcendental meditation (Jaffe, 1980) to sports psychology (Nideffer, 1981). Although burnout has been observed in business executives, police officers, and lawyers (Welch et al., 1982), its widest application has been to the helping professions such as nursing, teaching, and counseling (Patrick, 1981; Pines et al., 1981; Welch et al., 1982), in which the common denominator is the impact of providing constant care and meeting the multiple needs of clienteles, often without essential agency support.
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Marcus, L.M. (1984). Coping with Burnout. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) The Effects of Autism on the Family. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2293-9_18
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