Focus on recovery behavior in the treatment of exhaustion (“burnout”) syndrome

In this project recovery behaviors in everyday life is focused in relation to the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of exhaustion (“burnout”) problems.

The knowledge of how stress-related problems and especially how exhaustion ("burnout") syndrome should be prevented, treated and rehabilitated is today still surprisingly deficient.

This project is based on the hypothesis that deficiencies in the individual’s recovery behaviors in everyday life are essential to the development of various stress-related problems in general and especially for the emergence and maintenance of exhustion/burnout problems. The recovery ability in terms of frequency and efficiency of actual recovery behaviors should thus be a central focus in interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in this area.

The overall aim of the studies in this project is thus to generate knowledge about the importance of the individual's recovery ability in the treatment and rehabilitation of stress-related illness and exhaustion/burnout syndrome, and to evaluate the effects in exhaustion/burnout syndrome diagnosed patients with an intervention program focusing on improving the individual's efficacy of recovery behaviors.