Burnout Battleground: Navigating the Explosive Intersection of Technology, Work, Studies and Mental Well-Being—Identified Links with Mental Disorders

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the journal Psychiatry International is now compiling a collection of papers submitted exclusively by the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of our journal and outstanding scholars in this field. This Special Issue is centered around a subject of special interest, namely, burnout, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss occupational and academic burnout and its effect on mental disorders.

Over the past two decades, burnout emerged as an important concept and a psychosocial adaptation problem which, in some countries, is close to becoming a legimate medical diagnosis. Empirical research identified associations between burnout and various mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, affective and stress-related disorders and life dissatisfaction. Burnout has been found to be associated with a wide range of maladaptive outcomes that influence employees, organizations and service recipients. Burnout symptoms are prevalent among various occupational groups, such as teachers, social workers, physicians and medical doctors. Moreover, current research revealed that student or academic burnout, a multidimensional phenomenon related with anxiety, depression and substance use, is a common problem in higher education with significant consequences for undergeaduates’ mental health, affective experiences and their choices to drop out.

The focus of this Special Issue is to publish a set of papers that examine the burnout phenomenon in different occupational and educational settings and clarify its relation with mental well-being and mental disorders. In doing so, researchers are encouraged to discuss key topics in the field with the use of different theoretical frameworks and assessment methods and instruments. We expect these papers to be widely read and highly influential within the field.

Dr. Spiros Kamtsios
Dr. Vaitsa Giannouli
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• occupational burnout
• academic burnout
• mental health
• affective disorders
• emotional exhaustion
• assessment