Organisational strategies for addressing burnout and trauma-related employment stress

When examining trauma-related employment stress, it is important to look beyond the individual factors that can make someone more susceptible to burnout and secondary trauma and explore the work environment and organisational factors that influence trauma-related stress.

In this chapter, the authors explore how workplace environments and employers can address professional burnout and trauma-related employment stress by examining organisational variables (i.e., work and caseload, organizational bureaucracy, and availability of external supports) associated with these work-related challenges.

From the discussion, the authors conclude the chapter with recommendations for the workplace environment that they judge will help to address the challenges of burnout and trauma-related stress.