The role of language in preventing or ameliorating job burnout

Burnout causes major problems for both individuals and organizations. Many authorities espouse the use of communication skills as one of the most effective methods for preventing or coping with job burnout. The author advocates developing language awareness as an essential communication skill for preventing or ameliorating occupational burnout. Language problems, including allness statements, polarization, blindering, bypassing, abstraction problems, frozen evaluation, and fact-inference confusion, are linked to the prevention or remediation of job burnout.