Burnout syndrome in helping professions

Abstract

Burnout syndrome presents a condition which is caused by exhaustion and work overload and it represents poorly researched phenomenon in Serbia. Particular tendency to burnout syndrome is especially attached to helping profession. Differences among researches when it considers manifestation and symptoms, in some cases opens a possibility that burnout syndrome remain unnoticed for a long time period which presents an obstacle in treatment. Main aim of this paper is to indicate the primary causes, symptoms, and possible consequences, so that the measures of prevention could be lay out on time. In paper greater attention is paid to external causes and manifestation of burnout which together with certain personality structures contributes to burnout syndrome.