Beating Burnout: Helping the All-Or-Nothing Personality to Find Balance

A comprehensive
guide to the reasons behind burnout, with effective, practical ways to manage
and prevent burnout to create a more balanced future.
Burnout is a
phenomenon that can happen to anyone, yet it is most often found in
high-pressured workplaces, especially those where promotions and target
achievement are valued. In this timely book, clinical psychologist Mike
McKinney takes an informed look at the features of burnout, why and how burnout
happens, and the signs it might be about to strike.
After noticing an
increase in patients struggling with burnout in their work roles, McKinney used
his extensive experience to gain a better understanding behind the reasons for
this growth. What he found was that there are common underlying personality traits
in an individual that can result in an increased vulnerability towards the
development of burnout.
While workplace
changes are often touted as the answer to burnout, the author draws on his
clinical experience over more than 25 years to show the reader what is within
their power to change about themselves, so they can create greater resilience
to burnout and a better balance in life. He deftly demonstrates how particular
personality traits can contribute towards burnout, such as:

• the
  quest for perfection
• 
  fear
  of failure
• beliefs
  around personal performance
• having
  an 'all-or-nothing' approach
• holding
  impossibly high personal expectations.

The author then
provides options and answers, along with suggestions for positive changes that
can be sustained, and offers ways to help the reader consider a wider (and
possibly new) purpose in life that is underpinned by ways to enhance
resilience. Beating Burnout is an insightful, practical book for
professionals and anyone experiencing burnout, as well as those who would like
to help someone in burnout.

Mike McKinney is a registered
clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience. He has worked in both
public (hospital-based) and private practice settings, with a wide range of
clients presenting with issues including: depression, anxiety, stress
management, problem solving, and challenges within their work setting.

Over the years, Mike has become increasingly intrigued by the potential
for an individual's personality style to enhance or undermine decisions and
behaviours in relation to achievement. He believes there is a role for
psychology to help people maximise their potential to achieve a more meaningful
and rewarding life, be it in the corporate world, sporting arena, or personal
understanding and awareness. Mike approaches psychological therapy in a
collaborative manner, employing a range or evidence-based therapeutic options
that are built around his training and skillset within CBT, ACT and
Schema-based approaches.

Mike is married to a psychologist and together they have two teenage
boys. His interests include martial arts and classic Japanese motorcycles. He
lives with his family in Christchurch, New Zealand.