Occupational Burnout and Workplace Well-Being: Prevention, Detection, Assessment and Intervention Strategies
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 178
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health psychology; protective factors in the stress-psychological distress relationship; mental health; organizational factors in psychological well-being; validation of psychological instruments
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Interests: trauma and PTSD; mental health; psychology; psychopathology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Occupational burnout represents a growing challenge in many work settings, where structural inequalities, resource constraints, labour precarity, and high psychosocial job demands intersect to shape lived experiences of stress and well-being. While burnout has received substantial empirical and theoretical attention in high-income countries, questions remain about how well prevailing models, measures, and interventions capture the realities of diverse occupational contexts. Work environments marked by informal or insecure employment, limited occupational health infrastructure, chronic understaffing, and exposure to wider social stressors require approaches that are sensitive to local realities and systemic conditions.
This special issue seeks to advance contextually grounded scholarship on occupational burnout and workplace well-being, with a focus on prevention, early identification, and intervention. We invite contributions that critically examine the applicability of existing burnout frameworks, develop or validate assessment tools that are culturally and contextually appropriate, and evaluate interventions at individual, organizational, and policy levels. Particular attention is given to equity-oriented and system-level approaches that address structural determinants of burnout and promote sustainable, healthy workplaces across diverse settings.
Prof. Dr. Tyrone Brian Pretorius
Prof. Dr. Anita Padmanabhanunni
Dr. Kyle Jackson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- burnout
- well-being
- assessment
- intervention
- detection
- prevention
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