Watch Out for Burnout: A Look at Its Signs, Prevention, and Cure

by Donald E. Demaray

From the back “More than a decade of listening to people in the clutches of burnout stimulated Dr. Demaray to write Watch Out for Burnout. People in the helping professions — teachers, pastors, social workers, lawyers, missionaries, and homemakers— are especially susceptible to burnout. A first priority in dealing with burnout is to recognize the signals. What are they? ‘…diminution of enthusiasm, gray feelings, negativity, withdrawal, lowering of competence, absenteeism, sluggish thinking, and anger. As burnout deepens, disgust, paralysis, radical isolation, full-scale depression, and inability to plan and work may appear.’ To help people regain joy and peace is the target of this book. Inspiration and practical measure abound as the pages provide handles on healing burnout in its various stages. Urgently needed help comes packaged in digestible units – single meditations designed to get at the causes and to find cures. Some topics covered humor, surrender, stress and distress, creativity, self-esteem, physical fitness, time and its management, family love and support, and the three fear, anger, and guilt.”

141 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1983

About the author

El Dr. Donald E. Demaray ha servido en la facultad del Seminario Teológico Asbury desde 1966 y en 1991 se convirtió en profesor emérito de predicación en el Seminario Teológico Asbury en Wilmore, Kentucky. Antes de llegar a Asbury, el Dr. Demaray fue profesor y decano de la Escuela de Religión en Seattle Pacific College (ahora universidad). Además, sirvió como pastor en la Iglesia Metodista Libre y ha enseñado y predicado en Japón, Inglaterra, Escocia, Sudáfrica, Irlanda del Norte, Canadá, Hong Kong, Taiwán y Australia. Ha escrito, editado o compilado más de treinta libros. Obtuvo su doctorado en la Universidad de Edimburgo.