Definition: “Burnout is a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and reduced personal accomplishment that can occur among individuals who work with people in some capacity” (Maslach, Jackson, & Leiter, 1996, p4)
Contributory factors to burnout:

Workload - Task demands / task avoidance?

Control - Synthesised contingencies?

Reward - Thin schedule of reinforcement?

Community - Social reinforcers, group contingencies?

Fairness - Comparing individual reinforcers compared to own?

Values – MOs?

We discuss burnout with exercise, food and weight loss.

Burnout in ABA:

1) Julie Slowiak – self care

2) Camille Plantiveau, Katerina Dounavi & Javier Virués-Ortega (2018): High levels of burnout among early-career board-certified behavior analysts with low collegial support in the work environment, European Journal of Behavior Analysis, DOI: 10.1080/15021149.2018.1438339