Last week we explained the three different types of burnout. This time we show you 15 constructive strategies to prevent, cope with or recover from them.
It is important to note that, in the long term, the key factor in developing burnout seems to be the degree to which the person is passive in the face of what they are feeling.
In an article from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, researchers listed fifteen different coping strategies used by people experiencing burnout:
- Social support
- Religion/ Spirituality
- Humour
- Substance use
- Planning
- Behavioural disengagement
- Venting emotions
- Acceptance
- Denial
- Restriction
- Focus on solving situations
- Personal growth
- Positive reinterpretation
- Distracting activities
- Cognitive avoidance
Seeking social support, deflating the situation with humour, better planning the workload, accepting our emotional and psychological struggle, focusing on solving the problem and positively reinterpreting challenges are constructive coping mechanisms .
