University of Basra organizes a seminar on “Psychological Burnout”

The College of Education for Girls at the University of Basra/Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences organized a seminar on “Psychological Burnout.”

The aim of the seminar in which lecturer M. Maysaa Sabri Jassim, to shed light on the concept of psychological burnout, its causes and treatment. The episode aimed to define the concept of psychological burnout, as it is defined as physical and emotional exhaustion as a result of continuous exposure to high pressures.

The discussion panel discussed the concepts of using the term “Burn out,” which was used by the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Herbert Freudenberger in 1974. He introduced it to describe the condition of a group of volunteers working with him in medical and social care structures, and whose behavior had become worse than the behavior of patients.

The discussion panel touched on medical treatment methods to deal with stress and provide the worker with special protection or transfer him from his work station to another work station.

Media and Government Communication Division/College of Education for Girls.